item: #1 of 96 id: A23597 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: England's great interest in the choice of this new Parliament dedicated to all her free-holders and electors. date: 1679 words: 4406 flesch: 59 summary: Insomuch as No man according to the ancient Laws of this Realm can be adjudg'd in matter either of Life , Liberty or Estate , but it must be by the Judgment of his Peers , that is , Twelve men of the Neighbourhood , commonly called a JURY ; though this hath been infringed by two Acts made in the late long Parliament , one against the Quakers in Particular , and the other against Dissenters in General , called An Act against seditious Conventicles , where persons are adjudged Offenders and punishable without a Jury : which 't is hoped , this ensuing Parliament will think fit in their Wisdoms to repeal , though with less Severity , then one of the same Nature ( as to punishing men without Juries ) was by Henry the Eighth , who for executing of it hang'd Empson and Dudly . To guide and fix your Choice upon Men , that you have reason to believe are Well Affected , Able and Bold to serve the Country in these Respects . keywords: choice; chuse; god; government; man; men; parliament; tcp; text cache: A23597.xml plain text: A23597.txt item: #2 of 96 id: A29409 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A Brief account of the province of East-Jersey in America published by the present proprietors thereof, viz, William Penn ... [et al.], for information of all such persons who are or may be inclined to setle themselves, families and servants in that country. date: 1682 words: 2995 flesch: 63 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. keywords: country; england; english; province; tcp; text cache: A29409.xml plain text: A29409.txt item: #3 of 96 id: A44560 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: The spiritual bee, or, A miscellany of scriptural, historical, natural observations and occasional occurencyes applyed in divine meditations by an university pen date: 1662 words: 31242 flesch: 60 summary: A spirituall Relapse is very pernicious : where God hath been knocking and sent away with a Repulse , in judgment he will suffer another bar to be clapt on that dore , and make the sinner more hardned . God hath drawn a Veile over some things , and if we are so bold as to go about to lift it up , he may justly strike us with blindnesse , even in those things which were before exposed to our view . keywords: cast; christ; day; death; desire; devil; doe; doth; earth; eyes; fall; find; fire; god; goe; good; hand; hath; heart; heaven; hell; life; lord; man; men; nature; open; pleasure; satan; self; selves; set; sin; soul; text; thee; things; thou; thy; time; use; water; way; work; world cache: A44560.xml plain text: A44560.txt item: #4 of 96 id: A47140 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: An exact narrative of the proceedings at Turners-Hall, the 11th of the month called June, 1696 together with the disputes and speeches there, between G. Keith and other Quakers, differing from him in some religious principles / the whole published and revised by Goerge Keith ; with an appendix containing some new passages to prove his opponents guilty of gross errors and self-contradictions. date: 1696 words: 43471 flesch: 72 summary: But so it is that I offer to prove , that G. Whitehead , and W. Penn by approving of G. Whiteheads Books , has denyed Christ both to be God and Man. And first I offer to prove that G. Whitehead in a Book of his has denyed Christ to be God , and W. Penn has owned this Book : keywords: answer; blood; body; books; christ; church; doctrine; faith; flesh; g. keith; g. w.; g. whitehead; god; hath; light; man; man christ; meeting; men; pag; penn; quaker; spirit; thing; words cache: A47140.xml plain text: A47140.txt item: #5 of 96 id: A48056 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Letter from Father La Chaise, confessor to the French King, to Father Peters, confessor to the King of England in which is contained the project and designe of that faction to introduce the Prince of Wales : with some observations on his conception and birth : to which added a letter from Will Penn to Father La Chaise about the affaires of that babe and the ensueing progress of the popish design. date: 1688 words: 9519 flesch: 33 summary: And this is the more possible because his Majesty takes all his Measures from the Constitution of the affaires in England , & undertakes nothing of any great importance till he considers how it stands with that King , eng James, -- Prince of Wales, 1688-1766. keywords: chaise; child; england; father; hath; hereticks; king; letter; prince; queen; son; tcp; time; work cache: A48056.xml plain text: A48056.txt item: #6 of 96 id: A50496 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A brief account of the most material passages between those called Quakers and Baptists at the Barbican-meeting, London, the 9th of the 8th moneth, 1674 / published for information by W. Mead ... [et.al.] citizens there present, from the best collection they could make by writing and memory ; also a copy of the charges against Thomas Hicks ; with a letter from a sober Baptist-preacher to Jeremy Ives upon the account of that meeting. date: 1674 words: 9399 flesch: 77 summary: FOrasmuch as the Baptists , &c. h●●● publickly ( though falsly ) accused a●● charged us with Denying the Christ of G 〈…〉 the Worth and Authority of the holy Scr●●tures , and other things of the like Natur● we do ( for the stopping of the Mouth 〈◊〉 Slander , and informing the Simple ) decl●●● in the Presence of God , That we do high Honour and truly Own the Lord Jes●● Christ , as he is born witness of in the ho●● Scriptures , both as he is God , and as he too● upon him Flesh , and fulfilled the Law in th● very Body prepared for him above Sixte●● Hundred Years ago , in which he resist●● and overcame the Divel , and became a compleat Sacrifice for Mankind in general . Whereunto G. W. replyed , That there had been a great Report of his and W. P's knowing the Appointment of the former Barbican-Meeting , and designedly declining it , as being Fearful or Unable to make good their Charges against T. H. which was an absolute Wro●g done them , they being ignorant of any such Meeting , wherein they were concerned ; and that they were now come to make good what they had exhibited against T. H. W. K. keywords: christ; god; quakers; w. p.; ● ● cache: A50496.xml plain text: A50496.txt item: #7 of 96 id: A51321 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A letter from Doctor More with passages out of several letters from persons of good credit relating to the state and improvement of the province of Pennsilvania : published to prevent false reports. date: 1687 words: 3268 flesch: 69 summary: A letter from Doctor More with passages out of several letters from persons of good credit relating to the state and improvement of the province of Pennsilvania : published to prevent false reports. A letter from Doctor More with passages out of several letters from persons of good credit relating to the state and improvement of the province of Pennsilvania : published to prevent false reports. keywords: corn; england; english; letter; pence; tcp; text; year cache: A51321.xml plain text: A51321.txt item: #8 of 96 id: A52706 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A letter from a gentleman in the city to a gentleman in the country, about the odiousness of persecution wherein the rise and end of the penal laws for religion in this kingdom, are consider'd : occasioned by the late rigorous proceedings against sober dissenters, by certain angry justices in the country. date: 1687 words: 12528 flesch: 40 summary: Is it lawful to Persecute , and to make and Execute Laws for the Inflicting of Pains and Penalties upon quiet and peaceable People , for Matters meerly of Religion ; and in particular , For meeting together meerly for matter of Religion ? After the Papists had some time continued the alone-Persecuted Party for Matters of Religion , several Differences , in Matters meerly of Religion , happened to divide the Protestants into distinct and separate Parties , during some part of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth ; and also during the several and successive Reigns of King James , and King Charles the First : And about the beginning of the Reign of King James , some few desperate Male-contents , professedly of the Popish Religion , being found Guilty of a wicked Plot , whereby they had designed the Destruction both of that King , and of his Parliament , by Gun-Powder ( for which they were deservedly Executed ) several new and more severe Laws were then , and at several times after , made against the Papists in general , by which several Punishments were Inflicted on them for Matters of meer Religion ; and several Penal Laws were also made , by which the then Governing Protestant Party , ( then , and still distinguished by the Name of the Church of England , or the Episcopal Party ) persecuted Them. keywords: church; england; government; king; laws; matters; meer religion; papists; party; persecution; principle; protestants; religion; time cache: A52706.xml plain text: A52706.txt item: #9 of 96 id: A54003 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A just rebuke to one & twenty learned and reverend divines (so called) being an answer to an abusive epistle against the people call'd Quakers subscrib'd by : Thoman Manton, Thomas Jacomb, John Yates, John Sheffield, Anthony Palmer, Thomas Cole, Thomas Doelittel, Richard Baxter, William Cooper, George Griffith, Matthew Barker, John Singleton, Andrew Parsons, Richard Mayo, Thomas Gouge, William Jenkyn, Thomas Watson, Benjamin Needler, William Carslake, Stephen Ford, Samuel Smith / by William Penn. date: 1674 words: 12954 flesch: 57 summary: But the Truth is , nothing is well with some Men that a Quaker doth ; if he be retired , he is sullen ; if plain in his Apparel , Cynical ; if careless about Salutation , Proud ; his Industry must be Worldly-Mindedness ; his Mod●rate Vses of Imjoymens , Penuriousn●ss ; his Hospitality , Fl●sh-Pleasingness ; his being at a Word , a Decoy for Custom and a New Way of Cheating ; if he refuse to answer any Questions relating to Religion , eit●er he can give no Account of his Religion , or he he holds some Error he is afraid to discover ; if he doth answer them , either it is Nonsense or Equivocation : In short , his Virtues must be Vi●es ; but thi● is his Resolution , if to be , as he is be to be Vile , he will be more Vile ; and I doubt not but God will plead our Cause against you , and evidence to you and all Men , that we have not pursued Cynical Singularities , nor Affected undue Separation ; but with Holy Fear and Sincerity of Soul have been herein resign'd to the Good-Will of God , as he hath made it known by the Light of his Son in our own Consciences ; and this I affirm , that all those Endeavours many vigorously employ to vilifie an Inward Principle , and disswade Persons from believing in it , waiting upon it , and being guided by it , center in the rankest Atheism , because the Sence and Influence upon the Mind , is the most sensible , express and constant Argument for God and his pure Religion , which lost , makes Way for Infidelity . Having this Encouragem●nt from God , what Injury soever we sustain from Men , well may we say with that Kingly Prophet , Whom should we fear ? keywords: book; christ; divines; god; good; hath; john; man; men; people; principles; quakers; religion; reverend; selves; thomas; way; words cache: A54003.xml plain text: A54003.txt item: #10 of 96 id: A54094 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: An account of the blessed end of Gulielma Maria Penn, and of Springet Penn, the beloved wife and eldest son of William Penn date: 1699 words: 3925 flesch: 71 summary: Thou whose Son said to his Disciples , Whatever ye ask in my Name , ye shall receive ; I Pray thee , in his Name , Bless this to me this Night , and give me Rest , if it be thy Blessed Will , O Lord ! I am poor weak Creature , and live by thee , and therefore I should have said , If it pleaseth thee that I Live , I intend to do so or so : Lord forgive my Rash Expression . keywords: father; good; lord; penn; thee; time cache: A54094.xml plain text: A54094.txt item: #11 of 96 id: A54095 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: An account of W. Penn's travails in Holland and Germany, anno MDCLXXVII, for the service of the Gospel of Christ, by way of journal containing also divers letters and epistles writ to several great and eminent persons whilst there. date: 1694 words: 50859 flesch: 61 summary: And be it known unto all , we cast out none from among us ; for if they go from the Light , and Spirit , and Power , in which our Unity is , they cast out themselves ; and it has been our way to admonish them , that they may come to the Spirit and Light of God which they are gone from , and so come into the Unity again . And this is the great Condemnation of the World at this Day , under all their great professions of God , Christ , Spirit and Scriptures ; that though Christ hath enlightned them , yet they will not bring their Deeds to the Light , but hate the Light , and love their dark Customs and Practices rather than the Light , because their Deeds are Evil. keywords: christ; come; day; dear; friends; glory; god; good; hath; hearts; holy; jesus; life; light; lord; lord god; love; man; meeting; month; morning; peace; people; power; sense; soul; spirit; testimony; thee; things; thou; time; truth; way; world; yea cache: A54095.xml plain text: A54095.txt item: #12 of 96 id: A54098 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: An address to Protestants upon the present conjuncture in II parts / by a Protestant, William Penn. date: 1679 words: 72210 flesch: 62 summary: The first is this : That which may be known of God , is Manifest in Men , for God hath shewed it unto them : That is , The Spirit of man being the Candle of the Lord , God hath enlightned it to manifest unto Man , what is necessary for him to know both of God and himself . I am not against the Use of Means : Men have not Wisdom and Power for nothing ; but then let them use them in the Fear and Name of God : Cursed is he that putteth his Strength in Man , and his Confidence in the Arm of Flesh . keywords: apostle; authority; christ; christian; church; civil; conscience; doctrine; end; faith; god; good; government; hath; heart; holy; jesus; jesus christ; john; judgment; kingdom; law; life; like; lord; love; man; men; nature; people; power; present; reason; religion; scripture; self; selves; sin; spirit; things; thou; thy; time; truth; use; way; words; world cache: A54098.xml plain text: A54098.txt item: #13 of 96 id: A54101 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Advice to freeholders and other electors of members to serve in Parliament in relation to the penal laws and the tests : in a letter to a friend in the conntry [sic]. date: 1687 words: 6285 flesch: 50 summary: She will not pretend to deny his Majesty Liberty of Conscience ; If she doth not , can she expect by his Permission and Authority to cudgel her fellow Subjects into a Communion which he doth not approve , and that after he hath so solemnly declared his Royal Judgment to be against all Persecution for Conscience sake ? He intends not to deprive the Church of England of such Laws as are defensive of her Religion and Possessions , but only to abrogate such Statutes , as the Iniquity or short-sightedness of past Ages hath armed her with to annoy and offend her Neighbours ; Laws wicked in themselves , and which she hath too long , very wickedly executed , and therefore very fit to be yielded up . Church and state -- England. keywords: church; conscience; hath; king; laws; liberty; man; men; people; religion; work cache: A54101.xml plain text: A54101.txt item: #14 of 96 id: A54102 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Annimadversions on the apology of the clamorous squire against the Duke of Buckinghams seconds, as men of no conscience date: 1685 words: 4390 flesch: 69 summary: However , his Grace may happen to ask this Gentleman once in his Life , if he be the man that charges him with leading the Dance to men of no Honour , no Conscience , no Honesty , and that advocates a Cause of so much Treason and Impiety , as is laid to the charge of Liberty of Conscience . For in all the late Pamphlets against Liberty of Conscience , there 's not one word of winning one poor Dissenter to the Church , no more than of Tolerating them out of the Church . keywords: church; conscience; dissenters; england; liberty; men; tcp; text cache: A54102.xml plain text: A54102.txt item: #15 of 96 id: A54103 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: William Penn's Ansvver to John Faldo's printed Challenge date: 1674 words: 1288 flesch: 61 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 38105) keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text cache: A54103.xml plain text: A54103.txt item: #16 of 96 id: A54104 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A brief account of the province of Pennsylvania, lately granted by the King, under the great seal of England to William Penn and his heirs and assigns date: 1681 words: 4700 flesch: 65 summary: A brief account of the province of Pennsylvania, lately granted by the King, under the great seal of England to William Penn and his heirs and assigns Penn, William, 1644-1718. 1681 Approx. A brief account of the province of Pennsylvania, lately granted by the King, under the great seal of England to William Penn and his heirs and assigns Penn, William, 1644-1718. keywords: country; english; good; heirs; king; penn; province; tcp; text; william; william penn cache: A54104.xml plain text: A54104.txt item: #17 of 96 id: A54107 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A brief account of the rise and progress of the people called Quakers in which their fundamental principle, doctrines, worship, ministry and discipline are plainly declared to prevent the mistakes and perversions that ignorance and prejudice may make to abuse the credulous : with a summary relation of the former dispensations of God in the world by way of introduction / by W. Penn. date: 1694 words: 26502 flesch: 61 summary: And that from thence Sprang in the Night of Darkness and Apostacy , which hath been over People , through their Degeneration from the Light and Spirit of God , these and many other vain Customs , which are seen by the Heavenly Day of Christ that dawns in the Soul , to be , either wrong in their Original , or , by Time and Abuse , Hurtful in their Practice . Sometimes in Markets , Fairs , Streets , and by the High-way-side ; calling People to Repentance , and to turn to the Lord with their Hearts as well as their Mouths ; directing them to the Light of Christ within them , to see , examine , and consider their ways by , and to eschew the evil , and do the Good and Acceptable Will of God. keywords: christ; church; day; god; good; holy; life; light; lord; love; man; men; ministry; people; power; principle; spirit; things; thou; time; truth; way; work; world cache: A54107.xml plain text: A54107.txt item: #18 of 96 id: A54109 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A brief answer to a false and foolish libel called The Quakers opinions for their sakes that writ it and read it / by W.P. date: 1678 words: 9411 flesch: 74 summary: And they are those that truly and substantially deny the Scriptures , who in Words own them , but in Works deny them , and in their Conversations walk not according to the godly Rules therein contained ; such are Whoremongers , Fornicators , Drunkards , Lyars , Back-biters , Slanderers , such as the Author or Authors of this Impious Libel , Envious Persons , Rioters , Sporters , Vain Persons , Lovers of Pleasures more then Lovers of God : These and such like are they that deny the Authority of holy Scripture ; yet as the Devil used Scripture against Christ , so do his Children use Scripture at this day against the Disciples of Christ . To be like Christ , is to be a Christian , and not else ; and Christians are in Concord ; for Christ is not divided , neither is that Body , of which he is truly Head , at Variance ; how much Discord , so much Degeneracy from God ; for he is one , and so are those that are born of him ; the Children of God are not divided , because one and the same holy Spirit leads them . keywords: christ; god; light; man; people; rule; scripture; spirit; truth; words; world cache: A54109.xml plain text: A54109.txt item: #19 of 96 id: A54111 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A brief examination and state of liberty spiritual both with respect to persons in their private capacity and in their church society and communion / written ... by a lover of true liberty, as it is in Jesus, William Penn. date: 1681 words: 7680 flesch: 59 summary: Ought I not to be left to the Grace and Spirit of God in my own Heart ? That all should be guided by the Grace and Spirit of God in themselves ; for the end of that Doctrine is , certainty . keywords: christ; church; god; hath; liberty; lord; mind; spirit; things; thou; truth cache: A54111.xml plain text: A54111.txt item: #20 of 96 id: A54114 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A call to Christendom in an earnest expostulation with her to prepare for the great and notable day of the Lord, that is at the door / by William Penn. date: 1694 words: 9491 flesch: 69 summary: Thou hast long sate as a Queen , that should never know sorrow ; Great have been thy Pretences , and large thy Profession of God , Christ , Spirit and Scriptures ; come , let me Expostulate with thee and thy Children in the fear and presence of him , that shall bring every word and work to Judgment . All that came before me , saith Christ , are Thieves and Robbers : And all that Pray , Preach , Sing , Worship , &c. and not by the Light and Spirit of Jesus , they go before Christ , before Christ cometh , before he prepareth their Hearts , and toucheth their Lips with a Coal from his Heavenly Altar ; and perform Worship in their own Will , Time and Power , and stay not for his Leadings , And therefore all such rob Christ of his Office , who is the Leader of the true Christians ; their Heavenly High-Priest , to anoint them , and offer up their Sacrifice to God for them ; and Prophet , to let them see and know by his Light in their Hearts , what they ought to do , according to the New and Everlasting Covenant ; I will write my Law in their hearts , and put my Spirit in their inward parts , and they shall be all taught of me , saith the Lord. keywords: christ; day; god; hath; hearts; holy; jesus; life; light; lord; spirit; world; yea cache: A54114.xml plain text: A54114.txt item: #21 of 96 id: A54117 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Caution humbly offer'd about passing the bill against blasphemy date: 1698 words: 2903 flesch: 57 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. then , in it self , is certainly , a Speaking Evilly of God : keywords: bill; blasphemy; eebo; god; tcp; text cache: A54117.xml plain text: A54117.txt item: #22 of 96 id: A54118 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Christian liberty as it was soberly desired in a letter to certain forreign states upon occasion of their late severity to several of their inhabitants, meerly for their different perswasion and practice in point of faith and worship towards God / made publick on the behalf of the present suffering dissenters within this kingdom. date: 1674 words: 3011 flesch: 52 summary: Remember , that Faith is the Gift of God ; and , that What is not of Faith is Sin : Nothing can be more Unreasonable , then to compel Men to believe against their Belief , or to trouble them for practising what they believe , when it thwarts not the Moral Law of God. Doubtless , Magistracy was both ordained of God , and elected by Men , to be a Terror to Evil-doers , and not to them that do well , though of different Judgments . keywords: eebo; english; god; men; tcp; text cache: A54118.xml plain text: A54118.txt item: #23 of 96 id: A54122 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A commentary upon the present condition of the kingdom and its melioration date: 1677 words: 17531 flesch: 28 summary: But farther , we may do well to consider how they have behaved themselves in the Fruition of these ample Priviledges they have been invested with : I shall not now trouble the Reader with a particular recitation of those disturbances and molestations wherewith our Kings and Nobles , as well as Commons have suffered under Popish Bishops ; Nor yet the Practices of our late Bishops of the Reformation ; how they oppressed the Subjects , and overthrew all Laws and Constitutions of the Kingdom , to set up their own Power , and satisfie the lust of tyrannous and absolute Dominion , abusing the goodness of our Kings to this purpose , which things have been shewed already by others : It shall be sufficient to observe , that when by the Reformation the Scriptues were opened , and put into every mans hands for their Direction , there were found very few whose minds were dis-engaged from the Superstition of Popery , but manifested an inclination to embrace the Scripture in the true and native plainness of it , and to yield obedience to the sincere practical Duties therein contained ; And at that time it seemed to have an Influence upon the Clergy as well as others , who minding the calling the People off from Popery , or Confirming them in the Reformed Religion , or building them up in Faith and good Works , were not much sollicitous of Dominion and Jurisdiction , but depended upon the Kings Grace , not only for any Authority to be exercised by them , but also for their very Lands and Revenues ; And he that had so boldly spoiled Abbies and Monasteries , bringing down proud and stately Fabricks to the dust , and Confiscating their Revenues , could also upon the least occasion offer'd , or tending to oppose his Projects , have caused them to taste of the same Lot with their Brethren ; These two things were concurring the Truth of Christ , and Fear of the Prince to whom they were subject , must needs make tolerable Bishops , though it is probable they were good men notwithstanding . Our business then is , to help in the two first particulars , For by them alone the last is made secure : There have been many attempts made of late for the Redress of the Former especially ; but by dealing too lightly , fearing to search to the bottom , they do but make things worse , and to stop one hole make three ; Prohibiting Irish Cattle , French Goods , &c. keywords: authority; desires; good; government; laws; life; man; means; men; mind; nation; nature; people; power; present; religion; set; things; time; trade; truth; world cache: A54122.xml plain text: A54122.txt item: #24 of 96 id: A54123 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Considerations moving to a toleration and liberty of conscience with arguments inducing to a cessation of the penal statues against all dissenters whatever, upon the account of religion : occasioned by an excellent discourse upon that subject publish'd by His Grace the Duke of Buckingham / humbly offered to the Parliament at their next sitting at Westminster. date: 1685 words: 5752 flesch: 58 summary: This whole Discourse therefore , being absosolutely free from the least intention of favouring any of those false Pretenders to Religion and Christianity , those wicked Enemies of Magistracy , the Sacred Ordinance of God , is only an Endeavour to evince the Reasonableness of a Christian forbearance to our weak Brother , purely and only as such . Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. keywords: conscience; consideration; english; god; good; king; liberty; men; parliament; religion; tcp; text; toleration cache: A54123.xml plain text: A54123.txt item: #25 of 96 id: A54125 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: The continued cry of the oppressed for justice being a farther account of the late unjust and cruel proceedings of unreasonable men against the persons and estates of many of the people call'd Quakers, only for their peaceable meetings to worship God : presented to the serious consideration of the King and both Houses of Parliament : with a postscript of the nature, difference and limits of civil and ecclesiastical authority, and the inconsistency of such severities with both, recommended and submitted to the perusal of Cæsar's true friends / by the author of England's present interest, &c. date: 1675 words: 11027 flesch: 49 summary: 10thly , This Way of Proceedure endeavours to stiffle , or else to punish Sincerity ; for Fear or Hopes , Frowns or Favour prevail only with base Minds , So●ls degenerated to the third and fourth Generation ; every Spark of Integrity must be extinguisht , where Conscience is sacrificed to Worldly Saf●ty and Preferment ; so that t●is Net holds no Temporizers , Honest Men are all the Fish it catches ; but one would t●ink they should make but an ill Treat to such as reckon themselves generous Men , and what is more Christians too ; but that which renders the Matter more unjustifiable , is , the Temptation such Severity puts upon Men , not hardy enough to suffer for Conscience , yet strongly perswaded they have Truth on their Side , to desert their Principles , and smo●her their Convictions , which in plain Terms is to make of sincere Men Hypocrites , whereas it is one great End of Government , by all laudable Means to pre●erve Sincerity ; for without it there can be no Faith or Truth in Civ●l Society : nor is this all ; for it is a Maxim worthy of Caesar's Notice , NEVER TO THINK HIM TRUE TO CAESAR THAT IS FALSE TO HIS OWN CONSCIENCE ; besides , raped Consciences treasure up Revenge , and such Persons are not likely to be longer Friends to Caesar , then he hath Preferm●●ts to a●lure them , or Power to deter them from being his most implacable Enemies . 7thly , This deprives them of Protection that protect the Government ; Dissenters have a great Share in the Trade , which is the Greatness of this Kingdom ; and they make a large Proportion of the Taxes that maintain the Government ; and is it reasonable , or can it be Christian , when they pay Tribute to Caesar , to be preserved in an Vndisturbed Poss●ssion of the rest , and that the rest should be continually exposed for the peaceable Exercise of their Consciences to God ? keywords: caesar; christ; church; conscience; god; goods; government; justice; kingdom; men; people; persons; pounds; power; religion; things; world cache: A54125.xml plain text: A54125.txt item: #26 of 96 id: A54126 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: The counterfeit Christian detected; and the real Quaker justified Of God and Scripture, reason & antiquity. against the vile forgeries, gross perversions, black slanders, plain contradictions & scurrilous language of T. Hicks an Anabaptist preacher, in his third dialogue between a Christian and a Quaker, call'd, The Quaker condemned, &c. By way of an appeal to all sober people, especially those called Anabaptists in and about the City of London. By a lover of truth and peace W. P. date: 1674 words: 38625 flesch: 72 summary: I. T. Hicks's first F●rgery begins with his Title-Pag● , and in that very Passage , where he promiseth an Evinc●ment of his own Objections to be no Fictions , but real Truths ; to wit , that he doth not only content himself in making the Evincement of his own Objections against us ( unfairly over-looking ours ) to be all he is concern'd in , but in so many words tells the World , That I confess , if those things objected against the Quakers in th● two former Dialogues be true , that then a Quaker is quit● another thing then a Christian ; who never said or co●fessed any such thing in all my Life : For I well knew , that the Controversie rise higher , and went further then his meer Objections ; I mean , ●o all he gave under our Name ; as both the Question stated , and my Pursuit of it do evidently prove . In short , If Justification by Christ's Righteousness without us , be the same , with being justified by Christ's Righteousness wholy without us ; then T. H. is not so bad a man , as I have represented him : But if there be any Difference , as undeniably there is , a●d a material One too ; then T. H's Inference and Con●lu●ion in my Name , make a foul Perversion . keywords: answer; christ; christian; dial; god; good; hath; hicks; law; life; light; man; men; pag; people; quaker; question; reader; rule; scriptures; self; spirit; t. h.; thee; things; thou; thy; truth; words; ● ● cache: A54126.xml plain text: A54126.txt item: #27 of 96 id: A54129 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A defence of a paper, entituled, Gospel-truths against the exceptions of the Bishop of Cork's testimony by W. Penn date: 1698 words: 31127 flesch: 66 summary: For a new Creature is the B●siness ; an Orthodox Life , the Cross of Chri●● which is the Narrow way of Self-denial 〈◊〉 I must say , That whoever declares , he believes in Christ as his Sacrifice and Sanctif●●● which is to save both from the Guilt 〈◊〉 Pollution of Sin , is a Professor of Christian●●● and may reasonably be allowed to be●● Christian at large . But all th● Versions I ever met with , and I have see● more than twenty , render the verse as it● in our English Translations : And all C●●ticks and Commentators , except the followers of Socinus , Read and Render it as ●word do . keywords: apostle; baptism; bishop; christ; christian; faith; ghost; god; gospel; holy; john; light; lord; man; men; people; scripture; spirit; supper; things; truth; viz; water; word; worship; ● ● cache: A54129.xml plain text: A54129.txt item: #28 of 96 id: A54130 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A defence of the Duke of Buckingham's book of religion and worship from the exceptions of a nameless author by the Pensilvanian. date: 1685 words: 13094 flesch: 63 summary: But is it , in good earnest ▪ a Sin to lead Men out of Errours , because it is a Sin to force Men against their Consciences ? what Man can have a happier Tallent than this : The very guift of Consequences . That so much Wit and Quality , that have made so great a Figure in the world , should give this On-set to Atheism , that had so long stoln the Credit of both , to giver her self Value with Men of Highest Rank , might have escap'd a Reprimand from the Deist or Christian ; And This was enough to send the Atheist a Challenge . keywords: christian; church; conscience; duke; god; instinct; judge; man; men; reason; religion; thing; time; way; world cache: A54130.xml plain text: A54130.txt item: #29 of 96 id: A54131 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A discourse of the general rule of faith and practice and judge of controversie greatly importing all those who desire to take right measures of faith and to determine (at least to themselves) the numerous controversies now on foot in the world / by W. Penn. date: 1699 words: 14549 flesch: 72 summary: There hath been since , and is now 〈◊〉 same Impediment ; for before Christ's ●●●ing in the Flesh and since , where the ●●●●ptures never reach'd , there hath been the 〈◊〉 Light : And though Nations , by not ●●●rifying God as God , when they have ●●wn him , have been given up to all man●●●● of Impieties , insomuch as their Under●●●●dings have been greatly vail'd ; yet did 〈◊〉 the Light within so entirely lose its Ru●●●● Exercise among them , as that they lived ●●●hout any Sense of such a thing : Now 't is taken for granted that 〈◊〉 wrote many Years after Luke : Some 〈◊〉 Luke wrote before Mark : However , M●●thew and Mark were not many , and to 〈◊〉 day we see no more than those Four in 〈◊〉 Bibles ; and therefore many such Writi●● are lost : keywords: christ; faith; god; holy; judge; law; life; light; man; men; rule; scripture; spirit; things; truth; ● ● cache: A54131.xml plain text: A54131.txt item: #30 of 96 id: A54132 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: England's present interest discover'd with honour to the prince and safety to the people in answer to this one question, What is most fit ... at this juncture of affairs to be done for composing ... the heat of contrary interests & making them subservient to the interest of the government, and consistent with the prosperity of the kingdom? : presented and submitted to the consideration of superiours. date: 1675 words: 23667 flesch: 57 summary: To be short ; If all the Interruptions , Informations , Fines , Imprisonments , Exiles and Blood , the great Enemy of Nature , as well as Grace , hath excited man in all Ages to about Matters of Worship from Cain and Abel's time to ours , could furnish us with sufficient Presidents , that the Design proposed by the Inflictors of so much Severity , was ever answered ; that they have smother'd Opinions , and not Inflamed , but Extinguisht Contest , it might perhaps at least prudentially give Check to our Expectations , and allay my just Confidence in this Address ; But since such Attempts have ever been found Improsperous , as well as that they are too Costly , and that they have procured the Judgments of God , the Hatred of Men ; to the Sufferers , Misery ; to their Countries , Decay of People and Trade ; and to their own Consciences an infinite Guilt ; I fall to the Question , and then the Solution of it ; in which , as I declare , I intend nothing that should in the least abate of that Love , Honour and Service that are due to you ; so I beseech you , do me that Justice as to make the fairest Interpretation of my Expressions ; for the whole of my Plain and Honest Design is , to offer my Mite for the Increase of your True Honour and my dear Country's Felicity . It is one of our main Objections , that their Church assumes a Power of assuring People what is Religion , thereby denying Men the Liberty of walking by the Rules of their own Reason , or Precepts of Holy Writ . keywords: charter; church; civil; conscience; england; english; fundamental; god; good; government; hath; henry; interest; king; kingdom; law; laws; let; liberty; man; men; people; power; property; religion; right; superiours; time cache: A54132.xml plain text: A54132.txt item: #31 of 96 id: A54136 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: An epistle containing a salutation to all faithful friends, a reproof to the unfaithful, and a visitation to the enquiring in a solemn farewell to them all in the land of my nativity. date: 1682 words: 3171 flesch: 65 summary: For it is just with God , to give such up to strong Delusions , and to commit sin with Greediness , who hold the Truth in Vnrighteousness , and profess it in their own Spirits , not in th● Spirit and Power of God ; whose Tongues are their own , whose Wills and Affections are their own , and under the Profession of Truth , can give them their Swing . Dear Friends , Love the Truth in your Hearts , be inward to the Lord , that you may grow in the Life and Wisdom of it ; And keep all your Meetings in the Faith and Power of God ; and love and honour the Brethren that labour in Word and Doctrine : Be diligent in his Work , and that will make you Rich in the Heavens that will never pass away . keywords: friends; god; life; light; tcp; text; truth cache: A54136.xml plain text: A54136.txt item: #32 of 96 id: A54137 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: An epistle of farewell to the people of God called Quakers where ever scattered or gathered in England, Ireland, Scotland, Holland, Germany, or in any other parts of Europe. date: 1699 words: 2896 flesch: 67 summary: the true Fear and Love of God ; which did not only make us careful , not to offend him , but also to be willing to forsake all things that came in Competition with him , or our Duty to him , Oh let this Chaste Fear and first Love abound amongst you , my Beloved , in Christ , our Blessed Light and Life ; or you will Decay , Wither , and Dye to God , and your Good Beginnings ; which God Almighty forbid . Who taking up with a formal Going to Meetings , and Hearing what others have to say of the Work and Goodness of God in and to them , they shun the Dayly Cross of Christ . keywords: christ; god; lord; love; tcp; text cache: A54137.xml plain text: A54137.txt item: #33 of 96 id: A54139 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: The frame of the government of the province of Pennsilvania in America together with certain laws agreed upon in England by the governour and divers free-men of the aforesaid province : to be further explained and confirmed there by the first provincial council and General Assembly that shall be held, if they see meet. date: 1682 words: 7536 flesch: 57 summary: WHEREAS King Charles the Second , by his Letters Patents , under the Great Seal of England , for the Considerations therein mentioned , hath been graciously pleased to Give and Grant unto Me William Penn ( by the Name of William Penn Esquire , Son and Heir of Sir Willam Penn deceased ) and to My Heirs and Assigns forever , All that Tract of Land or Province , called Pennsilvania , in America , with divers great Powers , Preheminencies , Royalties , Jurisdictions and Authorities necessary for the Well-being and Government thereof . Now know Ye , That for the Well-being and Government of the said Province , and for the Encouragement of all the Free-men and Planters that may be therein concerned , in pursuance of the Powers aforementioned , I the said William Penn have Declared , Granted and Confirmed , and by these Presents for Me , my Heirs and Assigns do Declare , Grant and Confirm unto all the Free-men , Planters and Adventurers of , in and to the said Province These Liberties , Franchises and Properties to be held , enjoyed and kept by the Free-men , Planters and Inhabitants of and in the said Province of Pennsilvania forever . keywords: assembly; council; day; good; government; governour; laws; men; province; shall; time cache: A54139.xml plain text: A54139.txt item: #34 of 96 id: A54140 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A further account of the province of Pennsylvania and its improvements for the satisfaction of those that are adventurers, and enclined to be so. date: 1685 words: 7458 flesch: 73 summary: Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 96945) This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. keywords: acres; brick; country; english; good; house; people; river; street; tcp; time; town; way; year cache: A54140.xml plain text: A54140.txt item: #35 of 96 id: A54142 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Good advice to the Church of England, Roman Catholick and Protestant dissenter, in which it is endeavoured to be made appear that it is their duty, principle & interest to abolish the penal laws and tests date: 1687 words: 22221 flesch: 62 summary: One can easily imagin this to be Reformation Language , and then it is not hard to think how low that Church must be fallen , that from so free and excellent a Principle , is come to make , execute and uphold Penal Laws for Religion , against her Conscientious Neighbours ; but it is to be hoped , that like Nebuchadnezzar's Image , whose Feet was a mixture of Iron and Clay , and therefore could not stand for ever ; Persecution will not be able to mix so with the Seed of Men but that Humanity will overcome it , and Mankind one day be delivered from that Iron hard and fierce Nature . I do heartily pray to God that he would enlighten the Eyes of her Leaders , and give them good Hearts too , that Faction may not prevail against Charity , in the name of Religion : And above all , that she would not be proud of her Numbers , or stand off upon that Reflection ; for that alone will quickly lessen them in a Nation loving Freedom as much as this we live in ; And what appears in the Town is an ill Glass to take a prospect of the Country by : There are Parishes that have Fifteen Thousand Souls in them and if two come to Church it is matter of Brag , tho half the rest be sown among the several dissenting Congregations of their Judgment . keywords: christian; church; conscience; england; god; good; ibid; interest; king; kingdom; laws; liberty; man; men; pag; popery; power; reason; religion; self; tho; time; world cache: A54142.xml plain text: A54142.txt item: #36 of 96 id: A54146 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: The great case of liberty of conscience once more briefly debated & defended ... which may serve the place of a general reply to such late discourses as have oppos'd a tolleration / the authour W.P. date: 1670 words: 16921 flesch: 59 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. The great case of liberty of conscience once more briefly debated & defended ... which may serve the place of a general reply to such late discourses as have oppos'd a tolleration / the authour W.P. Penn, William, 1644-1718. 1670 Approx. keywords: act; christian; conscience; english; faith; god; good; government; laws; liberty; man; matters; men; nature; persecution; persons; power; reason; religion; things; way; worship cache: A54146.xml plain text: A54146.txt item: #37 of 96 id: A54150 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: The great question to be considered by the King and this approaching Parliament, briefly proposed, and modestly discussed, (to wit); how far religion is concerned in policy or civil government and policy in religion? ... / by one who desires to give unto Cæsar the things that are Gods. date: 1679 words: 8156 flesch: 25 summary: If it be said , What shall become of the Magistrate or Magistrates , things being thus settled ? Where were the hazard ? for were it not unreasonable that the Magistrate or Magistrates should be in worse case then the People ? who are to be left to their absolute liberty as to the matter of Religion , without being lyable to any Civil inconveniency , or abridg'd of any priviledge upon the account of this or that form of Religion , meerly as such ; then why not the Magistrate ? It being fundamentally settled , as it would be , and is needful it should be , that except in his or their Family as Chap●ain , and that in a temporary way , it should not be in the power of the Magistrate or Magistrates , to make any standing Maintenance , or settlement upon any sort of men in Orders , or to set them up or countenance them , further then by his or their being of their perswasion , or allowing them on such account entertainment as Chaplain● ; and that for clearing the people of these Nations of the aforementioned Seeds of Jealousie , it be fundamentally settled as a Magna Charta for ever , that whosoever in the Magistracy , or any other from the least to the greatest , shall be found to alter or innovate this Fundamental settlement , shall be lyable to be judged by this Law , as guilty of Tre●son against the Fundamentals of the Government , for the Law only is , and is to be declared Supreme ; and that whoever either separately or in conjunction , shall go against this Basis or Fundamental settlement , were it a single person , or the Parliament , shall ceas● to be Magistrate or a Parliament , and their Decrees become void and null : for the ●●ndame●tals are never to be altered , viz. that the Magistrate , as Magistrate , is to be wholly ▪ shu● but , as to all meddling in matters of Religion , but every man as to the Magistrates interposition 〈◊〉 ▪ be left free ; and that all men , as men born freemen , not having fo●f●i●ed their Liberty by doing those things which makes them obnoxious , shall be secure in their Persons and Now during these times , although the number of those that truly feared God , and retained any 〈◊〉 of pure Religion , were very few and for most part ( at least ▪ so far as is conveyed to us in the Family and Success●●● of Abraham ; yet that inward and Universal Testimony of a Deity , implanted in the hearts of all men , ( as all sorts of Christians acknowledge ) did so far influence men , as to set their thoughts about Religion ; for as Cicero says Nulla Gens tam Barbara quae Deum aliquem non agnoscat ▪ since it is most certain , that Justice will gain a Testimony in the hearts of the most barbarous , the ancient Veneration and esteem to the great Justice and Equity of those Primitive Rulers , being fixed in 〈…〉 and heighned by the depravation of their Successors ; and this compared with daily ▪ 〈◊〉 afforded to men in the course of Providence , begot a belief that these things were the Gifts of these Good Kings 〈◊〉 in Heaven , from whence they came to be prayed unto , and reputed Gods 〈◊〉 And thus those things th●t did seem immediately to convey those 〈…〉 the Sun , Moon , and Stars , came 〈◊〉 to be adored , from whence sprung the Religion or divers ▪ Nations ▪ and thus 〈◊〉 any 〈◊〉 came to receive Power and Domination over others , 〈…〉 became more universally to be received . keywords: church; government; hath; law; magistrate; nations; people; policy; religion; things cache: A54150.xml plain text: A54150.txt item: #38 of 96 id: A54151 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: The guide mistaken, and temporizing rebuked, or, A brief reply to Jonathan Clapham's book intituled, A guide to the true religion in which his religion is confuted, his hypocrisie is detected, his aspersions are reprehended, his contradictions are compared / by W.P., a friend to the true religion. date: 1668 words: 25957 flesch: 46 summary: Sect. 9. His third Chapter chiefly consists of considerations , to evidence it a principal point of wisdom for a man to make a right choice of that Religion he would profess : his first is drawn from the necessity of a mans being of some Religion : indeed I cannot understand wherfore he should be so often earnest in pressing men to be of some Religion , who plainly tels them in several other places there 's no Salvation out of the true one ; unless he thinks the imploying their Talent to the service & adoration of a false god , be more excusable then to worship none : but to inforce this consideration , he does the Quakers the advantage of farther instancing a proof for them , and against himself : says he , in the very framing of the Nature of Man there are such Pinciples of Religion ingraven on him that cannot be razed out , that have taught the very Heathens to worship a Deity — Come judge impartial Reader , betwixt this Guide and the so much condemned Quakers , who has here repeated what he had before acknowledged , with this material addition , that cannot be razed out , I would gladly be informed , whether , if he allows the Eternal God to have created and formed man in body , soul and spirit , that it be not reasonable to conclude no other could invest Man with Religious Principles , and a propensity to worship a Deity ? and can it be admitted by any sober person , the Principle God hath bestowed on man should be natural , and yet religious ; imperfect , and yet the gift of God ? surely there can be none so dim-sighted as not to discern these very gross contradictions : for if God has imprest on man such a Religious Principle , to teach him to adore a Deity ( which must be himself , or else it would not answer the end for which it was given ) what is it less than to declare that God hath distributed unto every man such a proportion of his pure Spirit , and measure of his Grace , as might enable him in thought , word and deed to perform that good , that acceptable and perfect will of God ? and that the ground of those divisions in Religion , fallibility in Judgement , cruelty in Disposition , and all other A bominations that like a deluge overflow the World , is not the Insufficiency of that Divine Principle , but from neglecting and disregarding the Righteous Dictates and Instructions of it : And let him not deny it to be the same it was , who bears this Testimony that it cannot be razed out , so deeply ( is it his opinion , as well as truth ) has the infinitly divine Sculpter ingraven the characters of his eternal Law on the hearts of all Nations , that no time or alteration amongst men can possibly obliterate or deface it . yet with great confidence I can impeach Man as the ground of his own distracted and miserable estate ; for such hath been and is the curious and inquisitive mind of Man , that as he would be wise above what is written , so is he most impatient in his search ; and overlooking that sufficiency given him of God , to act in his divine and humane capacity , is either busily forming out of his brainsick fancies , rather what he would have God , Man , and Religion to be , than what they really are ; or else , being born under some generally received apprehensions and Articles of Faith , Worship and Discipline , 〈◊〉 so entirely hurried away with the variety of earthly pleasures , or diverted by fears , that they can find no leisure to enquire how far they bear any proportion with sound Reason and true Religion : Both these so much experimented evils , are the undeniable occasion of that inhumane entertainment such have met withal , whom God at any time hath sent to testifie against the invented wayes , words , works and worships of this degenerated world ; looking on it as an intolerable affront , that not only they should be exploded for Hereticks , but that the Faith of their Zealous Ancestors should come in question , it may be by Reformers of no better rank than poor Mechanicks ; forgetting it was the Channel , through which God in all Ages hath been pleased to convey the streams of Divine Knowledge ; and 't was indeed most congruous with God's Omnipotence , to let the lofty worldlings know , how able he was by mean and contemptible Instruments to effect the confusion of them and their Inventions . keywords: christ; christian; church; father; god; guide; hath; jesus; let; light; man; men; nature; people; power; quakers; reader; reason; religion; sect; spirit; thee; things; world; worship cache: A54151.xml plain text: A54151.txt item: #39 of 96 id: A54152 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Information and direction to such persons as are inclined to America, more especially those related to the province of Pensilvania date: 1686 words: 5271 flesch: 66 summary: The three Working hands may Plant and tend , especially vvith a little help of the Woman and Boy 20000 Indian Corn Hills ▪ vvhich generally make about 400 Bushels , vvhich at 2 s. per Bushel coms to 40 00 00 They may sovv eight Acres ; half vvith Summer Wheat , and half vvith Oats , vvhich computing at 15 Bushels per Acre , there vvill be 120 Bushels of both , and Oats at 2 s. per Bushel , and Wheat at 3 s. 6 d. per Bushel , come to . 16 10 00 To Indian Pease 01 10 00 To Gallavances and Patatoes ( a tollerable encrease ) 01 10 00   59 10 00 By this time the Year is brought about , and October is come again . Novv put the thirty , the nine , the eight , and the tvvo pounds eight shillings , and the three shillings together , and there vvill be forty nine pounds eleven shillings , vvhich vvants but nine shillings of fifty pounds , and you advance no more then money does in Ireland , that is neerer home , and an improv'd Country ▪ to vvhich add , the hazard that is Run , in this vvay , above a double Bond for the payment of the fifty pounds in Ireland ; for the ship perish , my money is gone , if the man or vvorking hands Dye , I have a Charge instead of a Revenue that vvill follovv me ; vvhich plainly evidences that the proposition is not grievous , but reasonable and charitable too , and especially vvhen vve Consider that Sixty five Days out of the Year , at eighteen pence by Day , vvill , vvithin half a Crovvn , pay the Rent , and as he has three Hundred to himself . Nor is this all , he is come to a Country vvhere Lands is cheap , and does Rise , and vvhere those that have hands cannot but live , and in a vvay too , not subject to the Contingiences & decays of Trades ; for as belovv the ground none can fall , so here every one falls upon his ovvn ; vvhich brings me to the Sixth Particular , about the benefit these Countries bring to Posterity . VI. keywords: acres; english; house; land; pounds; stock; vvhich; vvill cache: A54152.xml plain text: A54152.txt item: #40 of 96 id: A54153 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Innocency with her open face presented by way of apology for the book entituled The sandy foundation shaken, to all serious and enquiring persons, particularly the inhabitants of the city of London / by W.P., j. date: 1669 words: 5410 flesch: 55 summary: Next , the Prophets , David and Isaiah speak thus , The Lord is my Light and my Salvation ; I will give thee for a Light unto the Gentiles ; and speaking to the Church , for the Lord shall be thine Everlasting Light ; to which the Evangelist adds , concerning Christ , That was the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the World ; God is Light , and in him is no darkness at all ; from whence I assert the unity of God and Christ , because though nominally distinguished , yet essentially the same Divine Light ; for if Christ be that Light , and that Light be God , then is Christ God ; or if God be that Light , and that Light be Christ , then is God Christ . Pure Religion and undefiled before God is , to visit the Fatherless , and to keep himself unspotted from the World ; and instead thereof , believe they are performing the best of Services , in sacrificing the Reputation , Liberty , Estate , if not Life it self of others to their own tenatious conceptions ; because perhaps though Persons of more vertue , they cannot in all punctillioes correspond therewith ; how much I have been made an instance must needs be too notorious to any that hold the least intelligence with common fame , that scarce ever took more pains to make the Proverb good , by proving her self a Lyar , then in my concern ; having been most egregiously slander'd , revil'd and defam'd by Pulpit , Press and Talk , tearming me a Blasphemer , Seducer , Socinian , denying the Divinity of Christ the Saviour , and what not ? keywords: christ; god; hath; light; power; saviour; tcp; text; wisdom cache: A54153.xml plain text: A54153.txt item: #41 of 96 id: A54155 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Judas and the Jews combined against Christ and his followers being a re-joynder to the late nameless reply, called, Tyranny and hypocrisie detected, made against a book, entituled The spirit of Alexander the Coppersmith rebuked, &c. which was an answer to a pamphlet, called, The spirit of the hat, in which truth is cleared from scandals, and the Church of Christ, in her faith, doctrine, and just power and authority in discipline is clearly and fully vindicated against the malicious endeavours of a confederacy of some envious professors and vagabond, apostate Quakers / by ... William Penn ; to which are added several testimonies of persons concern'd. date: 1673 words: 51598 flesch: 58 summary: In this Case what shall be done ? Surely the Spirit must not be upbraided nor branded : Neither will it follow , That there is no Judge ; for Christ is the great Judge , appointed of God. The Ancient Christian Churches had the Spirit of Truth ; yet some Failers attended some of her Members for Want of keeping that Watch they ought , must the whole Church of Christ therefore be defiled or condemned , and the Eminent , and Laborious Servants of God therefore discredited ? Or should the Apostles have gratified the inquisitive Jews , Heathens or Backsliders , about any Miscarriages within themselves , who were too apt to charge them with far more Vile Practice then any instanced in either of these two Malitious Pamphlets . keywords: body; christ; church; deny; evil; friends; god; good; hat; hath; john; kingdom; know; life; light; like; lord; man; men; pennyman; people; power; quakers; said; spirit; thing; thou; time; truth; way; words; world cache: A54155.xml plain text: A54155.txt item: #42 of 96 id: A54156 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A just censure of Francis Bugg's address to the Parliament against the Quakers published by and in behalf of the said people. date: 1699 words: 10185 flesch: 57 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. keywords: books; church; conscience; god; government; hath; man; people; principles; quakers; reason; work cache: A54156.xml plain text: A54156.txt item: #43 of 96 id: A54159 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Just measures in an epistle of peace & love to such professors of truth as are under any dissatisfaction about the present order practis'd in the church of Christ / by a lover of the truth and them, G.P. date: 1692 words: 4862 flesch: 55 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. Just measures in an epistle of peace & love to such professors of truth as are under any dissatisfaction about the present order practis'd in the church of Christ / by a lover of the truth and them, G.P. Penn, William, 1644-1718. 1692 Approx. keywords: church; love; men; order; society; tcp; truth; women cache: A54159.xml plain text: A54159.txt item: #44 of 96 id: A54161 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A key opening a way to every common understanding, how to discern the difference betwixt the religion professed by the people called Quakers and the perversions, misrepresentations and calumnies of their several adversaries : published in great good will to all, but more especially for their sakes that are actually under prejudice from vulgar abuses. date: 1693 words: 7252 flesch: 73 summary: 2. The Quakers hold the Light within them is God , Christ , and the Holy Spirit ; so that every Quaker has whole God , Christ and Spirit in him : Which is gross Blasphemy . Princ. Oh then , let the poor Quakers and their abused Principles have better entertainment with thee , Reader , And do not conclude , because they direct People to the Light of Christ in them , that therefore it is a meer natural , and not a divine Light : Or , because they assert Christ to be the Word of God , and that he is revealed in the Heart , according to the Scripture , and that the Scripture in that sense is not so ; therefore they deny the divine Authority of the Scriptures , and that the Truth thereof is not in any sense the Word of the Lord : Or , because they don't receive the Schoolmens Trinity , therefore they deny the Scripture Trinity of Father , Word and Spirit : Or , that therefore they deny the Divinity of the Word : Or that they deny Christ without them , who was the Son of Man in a suffering state on Earth , and is now the Son of Man in Glory ; because they exalt and press the knowledge of Christ within , as the Truth and Excellency of the Hope of the Glory that hereafter shall be revealed , according to Col. 1. 26 , 27 , 28 , 29. keywords: christ; god; light; man; men; quakers; spirit; word; works cache: A54161.xml plain text: A54161.txt item: #45 of 96 id: A54165 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: William Penn's last farewel to England being an epistle containing a salutation to all faithful friends, a reproof to the unfaithful, and a visitation to the enquiring, in a solemn farewel to them all in the land of my nativity. date: 1682 words: 3042 flesch: 61 summary: For it is just with God , to give such up to strong Delusions , and to commit sin with Greediness , who hold the Truth in Vnrighteousness , and profess it in their own Spirits , not in the Spirit and Power of God ; whose Tongues are their own , whose Wills and Affections are their own , and under the Profession of Truth , can give them their Swings . Dear Friends , Love the Truth in your Hearts , be inward to the Lord , that you may grow in the Life and Wisdom of it ; And keep all your Meetings in the Faith and Power of God ; and love and honour the Brethren that labour in Word and Doctrine : Be diligent in his Work , and that will make you Rich in the Heavens that will never pass away . keywords: farewel; god; life; tcp; text; truth cache: A54165.xml plain text: A54165.txt item: #46 of 96 id: A54166 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A letter form [sic] a gentleman in the country to his friends in London upon the subject of the penal laws and tests date: 1687 words: 3202 flesch: 60 summary: But you unfold the Riddle to me , when you tell me , 't is for fear of Popery , tho I own to you , I cannot comprehend it , any more then you do Transubstantiation : For that we should be afraid of Popery for the sake of Liberty , and then afraid of it because of Persecution , seems to me absurd , as it is , that Liberty should be thought the high way to Persecution . keywords: church; laws; liberty; popery; tcp; text cache: A54166.xml plain text: A54166.txt item: #47 of 96 id: A54171 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A letter from William Penn, poprietary and governour of Pennsylvania in America, to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders of that province residing in London containing a general description of the said province, its soil, air, water, seasons, and produce ... of the natives, or, aborigines, their language, customs, and manners ... of the first planters, the Dutch &c. ... to which is added an account of the city of Philadelphia ... date: 1683 words: 10315 flesch: 78 summary: Jo●hua Ha●tins , Edward Betrice , Thomas Minchin , 18. John ap John , William Smith , Richard Collins , 19 Richard Snead , Dugel Gamel , William Russel , John Cole , 20 Richard Gunton Bazeleon Foster , John Marsh , Richard Hanns , James H●nt , 21. John Blunston , Henry Bayley , 22. John Penington , William Penington , Edward Penington , 23. Mary Penington , 23. John , Edward , William , & Mary Penington , 14 Richard Penn , 15. Samuel Fox , John Cole , William Russel , Henry Bayley , 16. keywords: city; edward; english; francis; george; good; hath; henry; james; john; jones; king; land; number; people; philadelphia; province; richard; river; robert; samuel; street; tcp; text; thomas; water; william cache: A54171.xml plain text: A54171.txt item: #48 of 96 id: A54175 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A letter of love to the young-convinced of that blessed everlasting way of truth and righteousness, now testified unto by the people of the Lord (called Quakers) of what sex, age and ranck soever, in the nations of England, Ireland and Scotland, with the isles abroad, but more particularly those of that great city of London : spiritual refreshments, holy courage and perfect victory from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, amen. date: 1669 words: 2877 flesch: 49 summary: A letter of love to the young-convinced of that blessed everlasting way of truth and righteousness, now testified unto by the people of the Lord (called Quakers) of what sex, age and ranck soever, in the nations of England, Ireland and Scotland, with the isles abroad, but more particularly those of that great city of London : spiritual refreshments, holy courage and perfect victory from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, amen. Penn, William, 1644-1718. 1669 Approx. A letter of love to the young-convinced of that blessed everlasting way of truth and righteousness, now testified unto by the people of the Lord (called Quakers) of what sex, age and ranck soever, in the nations of England, Ireland and Scotland, with the isles abroad, but more particularly those of that great city of London : spiritual refreshments, holy courage and perfect victory from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, amen. Penn, William, 1644-1718. keywords: god; holy; lord; tcp; text; truth cache: A54175.xml plain text: A54175.txt item: #49 of 96 id: A54176 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Naked truth needs no shift: or, an answer to a libellous sheet, entituled, The Quakers last shift found out date: 1674 words: 3129 flesch: 58 summary: There is great Difference in the Nature of Appeals : And the Reason of my Writing , as he citeth me , was , to prove the Light capable of giving an infallible Judgment , from my Adversary's acknowledging it to be the Gift of God , and appealing to it , as a right Discerner , for Judgment about what is right , and what is wrong , which this Person , T. H. like , left out : Howbeit , thus far what he cites , reacheth our present Case ; for doubtless , they had Power to give Judgment against T. H. if they had been but as willing to use it , having such clear Evidences in our Books before them . (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A54176) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 39784) keywords: baptists; books; meeting; tcp; text cache: A54176.xml plain text: A54176.txt item: #50 of 96 id: A54177 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: The new witnesses proved old hereticks, or, Information to the ignorant in which the doctrines of John Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton, which they stile, mysteries never before known, revealed, or heard of from the foundation of the world, are proved to be mostly ancient whimsies, blasphemies and heresies, from the evidence of Scripture, reason and several historians : also an account of some discoourse betwixt L.M. and my self, by which his blasphemous, ignorant and unsavory spirit is clearly and truly manifested, in love to the immortal souls of those few, who are concern'd in the belief of his impostures / by a living true witness to that one eternal way of God, revealed in the light of righteousness W.P. date: 1672 words: 20581 flesch: 62 summary: D.L.G. p. 69. Animadversion V. If something of God dwells in this Life in the Souls and Bodies of Men , then it is not so fiery Glorious , but it may abide in them , and they not be consumed : For , as Man is composed of Body and Spirit , so they have two Originals ; the one from below , Dust ; the other from above , the Breath of Life : They have also two Dooms , the Dust to the Dust , from whence it came ; the Soul to God , from whence it came , to be by him sentenced to the Blessed or Cursed State forever , according to the end of that Chapter , keywords: body; christ; earth; elias; glory; god; life; lord; man; men; muggleton; nature; power; reason; reeve; soul; spirit; things; thou cache: A54177.xml plain text: A54177.txt item: #51 of 96 id: A54178 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: No cross, no crown, or, Several sober reasons against hat-honour, titular-respects, you to a single person, with the apparel and recreations of the times being inconsistant with Scripture, reason, and practice, as well of the best heathens, as the holy men and women of all generations, and consequently fantastick, impertinent and sinfull : with sixty eight testimonies of the most famous persons of both former and latter ages for further confirmation : in defence of the poor despised Quakers, against the practice and objections of their adversaries / by W. Penn ... date: 1669 words: 45427 flesch: 67 summary: READER , whether thou art a Night-walking Nicodomus , or a scoffing Scribe , one that would visit the Messiah but in the dark Customs of the World , that thou might'st pass as undiscern'd , for fear of bearing his reproachfull Cross ; or else a Favourite to Hamans pride , and counts these Testimonies but a foolish singularity ; to Thee hath Divine Love enjoyn'd me to be a Messenger of his Truth , and a faithfull Witness against the Pride and Flatteries of this degenerated World , in which the spirit of Vanity , Lu●● , and all sorts of impiety hath got to so great an head , and lived so long uncontrolled , that it hath impudence enough to tearm its Darkness , Light , and call its accursed Off-spring by the Names due to an other Nature , the more easily to deceive : And truly , so very blind , and insensible are most , of what spirit they are , and ignorant of , the meek and Self-denying Life of holy Jesus , ( whose Name they prefess ) that to call each other Rabbi or Master ; to bow , to greet with flattering Titles , and do their Fellow-Creatures Homage ; to spend time and estate to gratifie their wanton minds ; [ the Customs of the Gentiles that knew not God ] with them signifie no more then Civility , good Breeding , Decency , Recreation , Accomplishments , &c. O that men would consider , since there are but two Spirits , ( good or evil , that acts them to all things ) which really of them it is that doth encline the World to these men-pleasing Customs ? The very practise of familiar greeting , with shew of respect to each others persons , was so severely reprehended by the Lord Jesus Christ , that he makes it a mark of the Apostacy and wickedness of that Age , of so great shew of Profession ; for he gives it in charge to his Disciples , that they should beware of those that love salutations , and to be called Rabbi , or Master of men ; a mark of honour in those times , &c. for he that is greatest among you shall be your Servant , says he to his Followers : and call no man Master , for one is your Master ; and James as expresly enjoyns the same ; My Brethren , Be not many Masters , knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation ; by which it is apparent , that the true Disciples of Christ were not to assume Lordship , nor Superiority , as was the Custom of the Heathens ; but that they should know a religious community , and live as Servants to each others necessities , acknowledging but one God , one Lord , one Law-giver , and but one Master , even Jesus Christ , who is God over all : neither hath it been used among many Nations to give great Titles , or call Magistrates by other names then what they ever had ; as particularly amongst the Romans , namely , Brutus , Valerius , Cato , Marcellus , Scipio , Pompius , Cicero , &c. keywords: apparel; christ; christians; conversation; end; god; good; hath; holy; honour; jesus; life; like; lord; love; lust; man; mat; men; minds; nay; people; persons; pleasures; pride; reason; recreations; rom; self; spirit; things; thou; time; use; vain; vanities; vanity; way; women; world cache: A54178.xml plain text: A54178.txt item: #52 of 96 id: A54184 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: The oaths of Irish papists no evidence against Protestants, or, A warning piece to jurors in a letter to a friend. date: 1681 words: 5258 flesch: 53 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. Popish Plot, 1678. 2005-07 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2005-08 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-01 Judith Siefring Sampled and proofread 2006-01 Judith Siefring Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-04 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion THE OATHS OF Irish Papists NO EVIDENNCE AGAINST Protestants : OR , A Warning piece to JVRORS . keywords: english; evidence; irish; oaths; persons; plot; popish; protestant; tcp; text cache: A54184.xml plain text: A54184.txt item: #53 of 96 id: A54185 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: One project for the good of England that is, our civil union is our civil safety : humbly dedicated to the great council, the Parliament of England. date: 1679 words: 8211 flesch: 50 summary: If Christianity , that most Meek and Self denying Religion , cannot prevail upon them , me thinks the Power of Interest , and that Self interest too , should have some Success for in those cases they use not to be obstinate . Now because the Civil Interest of this Nation is the Preservation of the Free and Legal Government of it from all Subjection to Forreign claim , and that the several sorts of Protestants are united , as in the common Protestancy ( that is , a General Renunciation of Rome ) so in the Maintenance of this Civil Government as a common Security ( for it strikes both at their Rights Civil and Sacred , their Conscience , Religion and Law to admit any Forreign Jurisdiction here ) it must follow , that had these several , as well English as Protestant Parties been timely encourag'd to this united Civil Interest , they had secur'd the Government from this danger by rendering it too formidable for the Attempt . keywords: church; dissenters; england; english; good; government; interest; people; protestants; religion; security; text cache: A54185.xml plain text: A54185.txt item: #54 of 96 id: A54186 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: The peoples ancient and just liberties asserted in the tryal of William Penn, and William Mead, at the sessions held at the Old-Baily in London, the first, third, fourth and fifth of Sept. 70. against the most arbitrary procedure of that court. date: 1670 words: 20293 flesch: 72 summary: And if the Jury bring in another Verdict , contradictory to this , I affirm they are perjured men in Law. Now whether the Justices of this Court , in their Proceedings ( both towards the Prisoners , and Jury ) have acted according to Law , to their Oaths and Duty , and to do Justice without partiality ? whereby Right might be preserved , the Peace of the Land secured , and our Ancient Laws established ; or whether such Actions tend not to deprive us of our Lives and Liberties , to rob us of ( our Birth-right ) the Fundamental Laws of England ? and finally to bring in an Arbitrary and Illegal power to usurp the Benches of all our Courts of Justice , we leave the English Reader to judge . keywords: charter; court; england; english; god; guilty; indictment; jury; king; law; laws; liberties; man; mead; men; pen; penn; people; prisoners; rec; right; verdict; william cache: A54186.xml plain text: A54186.txt item: #55 of 96 id: A54191 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A perswasive to moderation to dissenting Christians in prudence and conscience humbly submitted to the King and his great council by one of the humblest and most dutiful of his dissenting subjects. date: 1685 words: 18769 flesch: 59 summary: The change of Religion then , does not necessarily change the Government , or alter the State ; and if so , a fortiori , Indulgence of Church-Dissenters , does not necessarily hazard a change of the State , where the present State-Religion or Church remains the same ; for That I premise . Some may say , That it were more facile to change from one National Religion to another , than to maintain the Monarchy and Church , against the Ambition and Faction of divers dissenting Parties . keywords: church; conscience; dissenters; england; god; government; hand; indulgence; interest; king; kingdom; let; man; monarchy; people; power; prince; religion; roman; state; thing; time; toleration; way cache: A54191.xml plain text: A54191.txt item: #56 of 96 id: A54193 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Plain-dealing with a traducing Anabaptist, or, Three letters writ upon occasion of some slanderous reflections given and promoted against William Penn by one John Morse published for common benefit that all impartial people may be better acquainted with the invective spirit of some so called, and their ungodly sly way of defaming such as dissents from them, especially in their restless indeavours against the poor Quakers / by W.P. date: 1672 words: 6161 flesch: 65 summary: It is sufficient , if it be obeyed ; but God said , His Spirit should not always strive with man : yet every man has a Day , or a Time to be tryed ; if they rebel , and won't obey , God then gives them over . My Error and Contradiction is this , That in one place , I make all men to have a measure of the Spirit ; and in another , I say , That such as have it not are Hereticks concerning the Faith ; as also , that I quote these Passages , John 14.16 , 17 , 18 , 20. again , 16.13 . where Christ promiseth to send that Spirit which the World cannot receive ; also that of Jude , Sensual not having the Spirit , which thou judgest to be Error and Contradiction : Did I not know thy Meaning , I should take it for granted , that what thou callest the Contradiction , was also the Error ; namely , That all had not the Spirit : but understanding by thy second Carp , the narrowness of thy Soul ( for it is Predestinarian ) I will take it for granted , thou meanest quite contrary , namely , That God's Universal Love to Mankind is the horrible Blasphemy thou in Words ( I heard ) dost charge me with , though thou art something more Modest in thy Letter , by calling it a Foolish charging of God. keywords: christ; god; john; light; man; men; spirit; text; thou cache: A54193.xml plain text: A54193.txt item: #57 of 96 id: A54195 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: The preface, being a summary account of the divers dispensations of God to men from the beginning of the world to that of our present age, by the ministry and testimony of his faithful servant George Fox, as an introduction to the ensuing journal. date: 1694 words: 25055 flesch: 54 summary: What gratified the Lust of the Flesh , the Lust of the Eye and the Pride of Life which are not of the Father , but of the World ; and from thence Sprang in that Night of Darkness and Apostacy , which hath been over People , through their Degeneration from the Light and Spirit of God , these and many other vain Customs ; which are seen by the Heavenly day of Christ which dawns in the Soul , to be , either wrong in their Original , or , by Time and Abuse , Hurtful in their Practice . They felt the Divine Motions , and were frequently drawn forth , especially to visit the Publick Assemblies , to reprove , inform and exhort them , sometimes in Markets , Fairs , Streets , and by the High-way-side , calling People to Repentance , and to turn to the Lord with their Hearts as well as their Mouths ; directing them to the Light of Christ within them , to see and examine and consider their ways by , and to eschew the Evil and do the Good and Acceptable Will of God. keywords: christ; church; day; god; good; life; light; lord; love; man; men; ministry; people; power; spirit; testimony; things; thou; time; truth; way; work; world cache: A54195.xml plain text: A54195.txt item: #58 of 96 id: A54196 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Primitive Christianity revived in the faith and practice of the people called Quakers written, in testimony to the present dispensation of God, through them, to the world, that prejudices may be removed, the simple informed, the well-enclined encouraged, and the truth and its innocent Friends, rightly represented / by William Penn. date: 1696 words: 23194 flesch: 75 summary: They call it the Light of Christ within Man , or Light within , which is their Ancient and most General and Familiar Phrase ; also the a Manifestation b or Appearance of Christ c the d Witness of God , the e Seed of God , the f Seed of the Kingdom , g Wisdom , the h Word in the Heart , the Grace i that appears to all men , the k Spirit given to every Man to profit with , the l Truth in the inward Parts . This is our Sence of the Light , Spirit , and Grace of God : And by what is said , it is evident they are one and the same Principle , and that he that has Light , need not want the Spirit or Grace of God , if he will but receive it , in the Love of it : For the very Principle that is Light to show him , is also Spirit , to quicken him , and Grace , to Teach , Help , and Comfort him . keywords: chap; christ; god; grace; holy; john; life; light; man; men; people; price; principle; sect; spirit; things; truth; world cache: A54196.xml plain text: A54196.txt item: #59 of 96 id: A54198 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: The Protestants remonstrance against Pope and Presbyter in an impartial essay upon the times or plea for moderation / by Philanglus. date: 1681 words: 15485 flesch: 39 summary: Men of heat are men of Faction , , therefore avoid all such Zealots , of any kind ; and whe● His Maj●sty shall summon your Picture again to sit in the Parliament-house , be sure it be drawn by a good Hand : The Government by King , Lords and Commons is the best of all others , therefore endeavour to support it , by following every man his own Vocation , resigning State-affairs to the Conduct of King and Parliament , to whom they more properly belong ; As for my self , I was ever before of a different opinion , and blush not to own that my Principles are changed , since 't is not out of any Preferment , Interest or expectation at Court , ( which as I never wanted , so I never sought after ) but purely upon the merits of the Cause . Neither for such a factious age as this is ▪ can any Loyal Subject discharge his Duty bo●h to King and Countrey , without endeavouring ( as much as in him lies ) to silence those mutineers , who having first endeavoured to exasperate the Houses one against another , and both against the Kingdo , afterwards in the Lobby lye waiting the event of each warm debate with the same Repacious hope , as herenofore did , Birds of Prey upon a Roman Army , when the Signal to Battel was given ; for the enflaming the two Houses one against another , they make use of the Rights and priviledges of Conferences , asserting it the undoubted Rights of the Commons , ( as in Fitz-Harris ▪ s Case they did at Oxford ) to confer with the Lords when they please , without any denyal ; Which whether it be so or no , I shall not presume to determine , any farther then to acquaint you with a Remarkable passage that occurred in the Reign of Henry the fourths When the House of Commons Petition'd the King that they might have advice and Communication with certain Lords about matters of business in Parliament for the Common good of the Kingdom , which Prayer ( as the Record hath it ) our Lord the King most graciously granted , but with this Protestation , That he did it not of Duty , nor of Custom , but of his special Grace and Favour : keywords: church; commons; death; enemies; good; government; house; king; life; lords; majesty; man; nay; parliament; party; people; plot; popery; reason; sir; tcp; text; thing; time; war; ● ● cache: A54198.xml plain text: A54198.txt item: #60 of 96 id: A54199 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Quakerism, a new nick-name for old Christianity being an answer to a book entituled Quakerism no Christianity, subscribed by J. Faldo : in which the rise, doctrine and practice of the abused Quakers are truly, briefly and fully declared and vindicated from the false charges ... made by that adversary with a key opening the true meaning of some of their doctrine ... / by one of them and a sufferer with them in all their sufferings, William Penn. date: 1672 words: 78894 flesch: 66 summary: 4. I do declare to the whole World , that We believe the Scriptures to contain a Declaration of the Mind and Will of God , in and to those Ages , in which they were written , being given forth by the Holy Ghost , moving in the Hearts of holy Men of God ; That they ought also to be Believed , Read , and Fulfill'd in our Day , being Useful for Reproof and Instruction , that the Man of God may be perfect ; And that they have been , and are Instrumental to great Good upon the Spirits of People , by the secret Power of God , which often strikes , and presseth home to the very Conscience the weighty Truths declar'd therein ; yet We do Deny them to be the Word of God , ascribing that alone to Christ himself , and that not without Scripture and Reason . Observe Faith in the 16th verse is preferred above the Words of God in the 17th verse ; therefore it is not Christ the Word , but the Scripture the Word : For Faith is not above Christ ; Jesus Christ , who had less need of Scripture then any of us all , resisted Satan's Temptation by Scriptures , It is written , It is written , Mat. 4. I have , Reader , given his Mind at large , and the rather , that the Inconsistency of it , with the Charge he begun his Chapter upon , and the Contradiction of it to himself , might more evidently appear . keywords: adversary; baptism; believe; body; charge; christ; christianity; faith; faldo; god; good; gospel; hath; holy; j. faldo; know; knowledge; life; light; living; lord; man; men; pag; people; power; quakers; reason; scriptures; self; sense; soul; spirit; things; time; truth; way; word; writings cache: A54199.xml plain text: A54199.txt item: #61 of 96 id: A54201 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: The Quakers elegy on the death of Charles late King of England written by W.P., a sincere lover of Charles and James. date: 1685 words: 1655 flesch: 69 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A54201) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 47077) keywords: charles; eebo; english; james; tcp; text cache: A54201.xml plain text: A54201.txt item: #62 of 96 id: A54202 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Reason against railing, and truth against fiction being an answer to those two late pamphlets intituled A dialogue between a Christian and a Quaker, and the Continuation of the dialogue &c. by one Thomas Hicks, an Anabaptist teacher : by W. Penn. date: 1673 words: 67296 flesch: 66 summary: A Consequence so foul , that God forbid any of us should ever give any Just Occasion for it ; For we both believe Men ought to liv● up to them , and that they are highly Reprov●able if they transgress against them But the Reason why , is that Conviction they meet with from the Light in their own Consciences ; wherefore the Scriptures are so far from being the great Rule of Faith and Practice , that the Light of Christ within is both our Warrant and Rule for Faith in , and Obedience to them . Dangerous , because it begets a confident Pe●swasion in many People of their being Justified , ● whilst in Captivity to those Lusts , whose Reward is Condemnation ; whence came that usual Saying amongst many Professors of Religion , That God looks not on them as they are in * Themselves , but as they are in Christ ; not considering , that none can be in Christ , who are not New Creatures , which those cannot be reputed , who have not disrobed themselves of their old Garments , but are still immantled with the Corruptions of the Old Man. keywords: answer; body; christ; christian; divine; doth; faith; flesh; god; good; hath; hicks; holy; jesus; justification; life; light; like; lord; man; men; people; power; righteousness; rule; scripture; self; sin; soul; spirit; t.h; things; thou; truth; way; words; work; world; ● ● cache: A54202.xml plain text: A54202.txt item: #63 of 96 id: A54203 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: The reasonableness of toleration, and the unreasonableness of penal laws and tests wherein is prov'd by Scripture, reason and antiquity, that liberty of conscience is the undoubted right of every man, and tends to the flourishing of kingdoms and commonwealths, and that persecution for meer religion is unwarrantable, unjust, and destructive to humane society, with examples of both kinds. date: 1687 words: 13924 flesch: 41 summary: Yet this must be the main design of those that study thus the destruction of all other Mortals but themselves within the Verge of their Jurisdiction ; which as it is a great Argument of a Spiritual Arbitrary Government , so is it at the same time a sign of no less Presumption for a particular number of Men , enclosed within the narrow Circle of Episcopacy , compar'd with those vast multitudes of Dissenters and Roman-Catholicks , that under various names of distinction invented by their Adversaries , spread themselves over the fourth part of the World , to arrogate to themselves to be the only Flock of Christ ; and that they are the only Pastors who have power to drive men to Heaven ; for this is to disclaim the Popes Supremacy , and usurp it to themselves ; to Preach down one Antichrist , and set up six and twenty : The same is to be said of the Persecutions of Men in their Bodies and Goods ; for others observing the extream Patience and Constancy of so many People suffering for their particular Opinions in matters of Religion , become curious to understand what that Religion should be that inspires men with so much resolution to suffer the worst of Miseries , rather then abandon the Profession of it , which is the reason that Persecutors according to the Opinion of Strada , though they are not concerned in tormenting , yet they dread the Triumphs of the Tormented at their Executions , for that it has been frequently known that one Martyr ● made many Proselytes , by his resolute maintaining to the last , the Profession for which he dyed . keywords: christians; church; conscience; god; good; laws; liberty; man; men; penal; people; power; reason; religion; subjects; text; tho; thought; toleration; worship cache: A54203.xml plain text: A54203.txt item: #64 of 96 id: A54204 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Reasons why the oaths should not be made a part of the test to Protestant dissenters date: 1683 words: 2948 flesch: 58 summary: 1. WE do humbly conceive , that because these Oaths were Antiently made upon Occasion of the Conspiracies of Papists against the Government , and are now reviv'd upon the score of the late Discovery of their Horrid Plot ; and that since they only ought at any time to be administred in Case of Just Jealousie or Suspition had of any Person or Persons : We , who are no Papists , but by our Faith and Doctrine Repugnant to all Popery ; And We , who have never shown the least Disallegiance or Vnfaithfulness , but on the Contrary have been patient and peaceable under all that Excess of Severity , that in several parts of this Nation hath been inflicted upon us , ought not to be brought under the same Jealousies with the Papists : It is suspecting an Integrity , that was never Tainted . keywords: dissenters; oaths; papists; tcp; test; text cache: A54204.xml plain text: A54204.txt item: #65 of 96 id: A54205 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: William Penn's return to John Faldo's reply, called A curb for William Penn's confidence, &c. writ in defence of his answer to John Faldo's printed challenge. date: 1674 words: 10236 flesch: 61 summary: 2dly , It was so far left with J. Faldo , either to accept or reject , as that it was most remote from the Thoughts of G. W. upon his Refusal to assemble the Inhabitants of the Place , and in his Absence exclaim both against his Faith and Pra●tice ; our manifest Suffering from T. Hicks and his Confederates 3dly , There can be nothing well falser then his insinuating the Issue of that M●eting to have been his Q●iet from the Quakers ; if by Quiet he understands any Fear upon them from his Force of Argument to encounter him ; since he could neither recover our half Proselyte , as he is pleased to call that Person once a Hearer of him ; nor did he re●t one Moneth without a fair offer of another Meeting from some of our Friends near the Place of his Residence , which , as I am informed , he declined : I blame him not for doing so . But I will stand to my words , that he must needs know of my Absence ; for they that gave him notice of the Meeting , being some of the Persons concern'd , might also inform him , that I was at a great distance , they receiving that Answer : But left he should deny all this , as proba●le as it is , the Prolocutor's Gloss upon the Word EAST , doth the Business to an Hairs breadth ; for unless J. Faldo's Ears happen like J. Ives's , to be all of a sudden thick of Hearing , or to have as great an Impediment as T. Hick's Tongue ( that is , in Cases unpleasant to them ) he could not but observe , that W. K. insinuated , as if I had Voyag'd to the East-Land , or the East-Indies , too far for the Noise of J. Faldo's Charge to be heard , as Empty as it was ▪ But I must not forget , and yet take no Delight to remember , that Grave Person purposely left out England , joyn'd to East , in the Letter , that he might better break his Jest . keywords: answer; book; charge; faldo; hath; hicks; j. faldo; man; scriptures cache: A54205.xml plain text: A54205.txt item: #66 of 96 id: A54206 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: The sandy foundation shaken, or, Those so generally believed and applauded doctrines ... refuted from the authority of Scripture testimonies, and right reason / by W.P. ... date: 1668 words: 13076 flesch: 55 summary: This is the right state of the Controversie that is maintained by us ( contemptibly called Quakers ) against the World , and the undoubted reason of our severe Treatment at its hands , the end of God Almighties raising us , being for no other purpose than to declare that which our eyes have seen , our ears heard , and which our hands have handled of the Eternal Word , in opposition to the private Opinions , Conjectures , and Interpretations of men concerning God and Religion , that all people might thereby be reduced to Faith in , and obedience of the Universal Grace which brings Salvation ; which as it onely can restore sound Judgment concerning God , and effect Redemption from Iniquity , so its being relinquish'd by men , was the very ground both of their division in Judgment , and corruption in Manners . 1. If there be three distinct and separate Persons , then three distinct and separate Substances , because every person is inseparable from its own Substance ; and as there is no person that 's not a Substance in common acceptation among men , so do the Scriptures plentifully agree herein ; and since the Father is God , the Son is God , and the Spirit is God ( which their Opinion necessitates them to confess ) then unless the Father , Son , and Spirit , are three distinct Nothings , they must be three distinct Substances , and consequently three distinct Gods. keywords: christ; doctrine; father; god; holy; love; man; persons; reason; righteousness; satisfaction; scripture; son; spirit cache: A54206.xml plain text: A54206.txt item: #67 of 96 id: A54208 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Saul smitten to the ground being a brief, but faithful narrative of the dying remorse of a late living enemy (to the people called Quakers, and their faith and worship), Matthew Hide : attested by eye and ear-witnesses, whereof his widdow is one ... : with an appendix both to foes and friends on this occasion / by William Penn. date: 1675 words: 5088 flesch: 53 summary: Published in Honour to God , For a Warning to Gainsayers , And a Confirmation to the Honest-hearted . M. Hide signified thus much , That he was sorry for what he had done ; for they were the People of God. C. Oades asked him , If he had any thing in his Mind to any particular Friends , nominating G. Whitehead and W. Gibson , or any other ; and whether he would be willing any of them should be sent for ? M. Hide replyed , As many as please may come . keywords: conscience; god; hide; light; lord; man; people; tcp; text cache: A54208.xml plain text: A54208.txt item: #68 of 96 id: A54211 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A second letter from a gentleman in the country to his friends in London upon the subject of the penal laws and tests. date: 1687 words: 4884 flesch: 64 summary: But to be sure they Sting all that won't come to Church , and that every where . And yet after so gratious a Declaration , both to Church and Dissenters , and that has so decent a regard to the concurrance of a Parliament too , Who can be displeased ? keywords: church; england; government; king; laws; snake; tcp; text cache: A54211.xml plain text: A54211.txt item: #69 of 96 id: A54212 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: The second part of The continued cry of the oppressed for justice being an additional account of the present and late cruelty, oppression & spoil inflicted upon the persons and estates of many of the peaceable people called Quakers, in divers counties, cities and towns in this nation of England and Wales (chiefly upon the late act made against conventicles) for the peaceable exercise of their tender consciences towards God in matters of worship and religion. date: 1676 words: 36988 flesch: 55 summary: Galloway of Lewes he took Goods to the value of 14 l. 15 s. and from Thomas Mosely for 9 l. 15 s. demanded he took Goods to the value of 12 l. 6 s. 8 d. the 20 l. for the House imposed for the first Meeting being not then levied ; and from Mary Akehurst , a Widdow , that hath Five Children , for two fines , being both 8 l. 10 s. took Goods to the value of 1● l 18 s. 10 d. and from Elizabeth Shuter Widdow he took two Looking-glasse ▪ for 5 s. demanded ; from Samuel Baker , a Blacksmith at Newhaven , for 6 l. 18 s. 4 d. fine , was taken half a Tun of Iron which cost 7 l. odd money . several of the aforesaid People were fined by William Spence Justice , upon the Information of Walter Jones and William Purser Informers , for two Preachers 40 l. and for several Persons as Hearers , 5 s. apiece , to be levied as followeth , Upon Ambrose Galloway 10 l. 5 s. upon John Ellis 10 l. 5 s. upon Thomas Mosely 10 l. 5 s. and upon Henry Scrase 10 l. 5 s. and upon some other Persons 5 s. apiece . keywords: 11th; 5th; 7th; aforesaid; bishop; constable; county; court; cows; day; edward; fine; george; goal; god; goods; henry; house; informers; iohn; john; jury; justice; man; meeting; meeting house; moneth; officers; parish; people; persons; poor; poverty; priest; prisoner; richard; robert; s. john; s. thomas; samuel; suit; thomas; thoroton; town; tythes; value; wardens; warrant; wife; william; worth; writ cache: A54212.xml plain text: A54212.txt item: #70 of 96 id: A54213 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: The skirmisher defeated and truth defended being an answer to a pamphlet, entituled, A skirmish made upon Quakerism / by William Penn. date: 1676 words: 16076 flesch: 53 summary: As if I stated it , that Let men shut their Eyes , stop their Ears , rebel , blaspheme , give themselves up to all Superfluity of Naughtiness till Conscience is seared as with an hot Iron , yet without the Conscience be convinced , or that God by Force make it to see , hear , and be sensible whether it will or no , men are not obliged by any of his Commands ; for this is the very Way he states the Case for me , though I do so particularly provide against any such dissolute and infamous Pretences . And when it had pleased God thus to rouse us out of our carnal Security , and fire our House of empty Profession about our Ears , and open the Books of Conscience , and call us to Judgment , kindling his holy Terrors in our Hearts , because of our past Conversation , that had been in the vain and sinful Fashions and Customs of the World , calling God our Father , and not born of him , and Christ Lord , and not by his holy Spirit , neither had taken up his daily Cross , to the slaying of our own Wills and carnal Affections , notwithstanding the great Profession that we in Words made of him and the Christian Religion , we came to see that true Christianity was another Thing then the World apprehended , and that as he was no more a Jew that was one outward , so neither was he a Christian that was one outward , but he was a true Jew and Christian that was one inward , whose Praise is not of Men , but of God ; in this Zeal that God had begotten in us for his own living Way , the spiritual Circumcision , the right Christianity , namely , To be Christ like , to do the Will of God in Earth as it is done in Heaven , to live unspotted from the World , and no more we to live , rule and order , but Christ , that liveth in us , which is to have eternal Life abiding in us . keywords: answer; christ; command; conscience; conviction; god; hath; holy; law; light; man; men; people; scripture; spirit cache: A54213.xml plain text: A54213.txt item: #71 of 96 id: A54215 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Som free reflections upon occasion of the public discourse about liberty of conscience and the consequences thereof in this present conjuncture in a letter to a friend / by one who cordially imbraces whatsoever there is of tru religion in al professions, and hates every thing which makes any of them hate or hurt one another. date: 1687 words: 7116 flesch: 57 summary: They have al been straitned , persecuted and oppressed ; and therfore nothing can be more natural than for them to desire Liberty and Ease . But it would be very superfluous in me to insist upon them unto you , who have seen and heard them repeated of late Years in a thousand Forms , and who I know ar your self ▪ convinced of the natural equitableness of the thing , not withstanding al the inconveniencys that you have represented to me in its practice . keywords: conscience; interest; liberty; man; men; religion; som; test; thing; wil cache: A54215.xml plain text: A54215.txt item: #72 of 96 id: A54216 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Some fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. Licens'd, May 24. 1693. date: 1693 words: 15092 flesch: 82 summary: Let us then not cozen our selves with the Shels and Husks of things ; nor prefer Form to Power , nor Shadows to Substance : Pictures of Bread will not satisfy Hunger , nor those of Devotion please God. The Author blesseth God for his Retirement , and kisses that gentle Hand which lead him into it . keywords: business; god; good; government; life; love; man; men; nature; reason; religion; right; self; selves; thee; things; thou; time; world cache: A54216.xml plain text: A54216.txt item: #73 of 96 id: A54221 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Some sober and weighty reasons against prosecuting Protestant dissenters for difference of opinion in matters of religion humbly offered to the consideration of all in authority. date: 1682 words: 2471 flesch: 50 summary: 10. Reason , Because Persecution for matters of Conscience is a Breach of the good Rules of Humanity , and common Civility among all sorts of men , which is carefully observed in smaller matters : as for instance , among the many Creatures of God that are Food for mens Bodies , some things that are very pleasing and comfortable Food for some men , the same things are very Destructive to the health of other men ; now in this Case there is such Civility among all sorts of men that they hate and scorn to force one anothers Stomacks , looking upon it to be an inhumane practise ; and therefore do friendly , say to each other , Pray eat that which will best go down , and agree with your Stomack . Some sober and weighty reasons against prosecuting Protestant dissenters for difference of opinion in matters of religion humbly offered to the consideration of all in authority. keywords: god; matters; protestant; reason; tcp; text cache: A54221.xml plain text: A54221.txt item: #74 of 96 id: A54222 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: The speech of William Penn to His Majesty upon his delivering the Quakers address. date: 1687 words: 1213 flesch: 66 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 41056) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1236:18) keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text cache: A54222.xml plain text: A54222.txt item: #75 of 96 id: A54223 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: The spirit of Alexander the copper-smith lately revived, now justly rebuk'd, or, An answer to a late pamphlet, intituled, The spirit of the hat, or the government of the Quakers in which the confederacy is broken, and the devil's champions defeated / by a true witness of the one way of God, W.P. ; to which are added the testimonies of those persons whose names are chiefly quoted by the author of that pamphlet. date: 1673 words: 10583 flesch: 54 summary: For all Consciences that are defiled , or enslaved by Wicked Works , they are not truly free ; the Power of God has not delivered such into the Glorious Liberty of the Sons of God : And since those Perswasions Deny Liberty from Sin on this side the Grave , at least the immediate Light , Power and Spirit of God , to work it in the Soul , he therefore said , What! This now will be the Question , Whether , If any Person that had given those Signal Testimonies for a Way and People , and so incorporated himself with them , finding afterwards Fault with a Practice so Innocent , so Reverent , as keeping off the Hat in time of Publick Prayer to Almighty God , should step out of that ●omely Order , set up a New Mark and Standard , whereby some should have their Heads covered , others uncovered ( a most divided , confused and unseemly Sight ) the Church in this Case may not Admonish , andafter her due Admonition , and the Parties tenacious , resolute , and captions Disputes for that unsutable Practice , may not justly disown him as a Disputer about needless Questions ; and one that is gone out of the compleat Union of the Body , and exercised by another Spirit ? keywords: author; body; church; god; hat; hath; liberty; lord; people; power; quakers; spirit; truth; world cache: A54223.xml plain text: A54223.txt item: #76 of 96 id: A54224 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: The spirit of truth vindicated, against that of error & envy unseasonably manifested : in a late malicious libel, intituled, The spirit of the Quakers tryed, &c. / by a friend to righteousness and peace, W.P. date: 1672 words: 52307 flesch: 61 summary: If he , who is eminently that true Light , by whom only all Mankind is enlightened , neither is , nor can be that Light , as any part of Mankind , however immaculate ( since so he would be a Light unto Himself , which is both absurd and impossible ) then that Creating Word , which is that Divine Life , which is evidently that true Light , by which all men are enlightened , neither is nor could be a Mortal Man , however Holy ; and properly therefore it was not Christ , as Man , but as God , that he was and is eminently the Light of Men. Which I further prove . If God's Unerring Spirit has been wont to strive with men , either to convince them of , and convert them from the Evil of their Thoughts , words and Deeds ; or else , to provoke them yet more fully to do the Will of God , so as to press on from one degree of Glory to another ; then Men have had an Unerring Spirit to be their Teacher , and Judge and Rule , and Guide of that Truth , concerning that Faith , and in that most holy Way which leads to Eternal Life : keywords: adversary; apostle; believe; christ; coming; divine; eternal; father; glory; god; good; guide; hath; holy; holy spirit; jesus; john; judge; knowledge; life; light; lord; man; men; new; pag; people; place; reason; rule; saith; sayes; scripture; self; sense; spirit; things; time; truth; way; words; world cache: A54224.xml plain text: A54224.txt item: #77 of 96 id: A54225 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Tender counsel and advice by way of epistle to all those who are sensible of their day of visitation and who have received the call of the Lord by the light and spirit of His Son in their hearts to partake of the great salvation, wherever scattered throughout the world : faith, hope and charity which overcome the world be multiplied among you / by William Penn. date: 1695 words: 9779 flesch: 70 summary: To whom the World is become a burden , and the Vanities and Glory of it but vexation of Spirit : Who despise the things that are seen , which are Temporal , for the sake of the things that are not seen , which are Eternal : Whose Eyes look through and beyond Time and Mortality , to that Eternal City , whose Builder and Maker is God : Whose daily Cries and Travails are to follow Jesus in the way of Regeneration ; to live as Pilgrims in this World , for the sake of that Glory , which shall hereafter be revealed , that can never fade away , that you may attain unto the Eternal Rest of God : To you , my dear Friends , to you it is , that the God and Father of him that was dead , and is alive , and liveth for evermore , Christ Jesus , the faithful and true Witness , who hath loved and visited my Soul , hath now moved upon my Spirit to write , and visit you with this Epistle . Dear Friends , God hath breathed the Breath of Life in you , and in measure you live ; for dead Men and Women do not Hear , or Hunger , or Thirst ; neither do they feel Weights and Burdens as you do . keywords: christ; god; hath; holy; jesus; light; lord; man; soul; spirit; world; yea cache: A54225.xml plain text: A54225.txt item: #78 of 96 id: A54228 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A testimony to the truth of God, as held by the people, called, Quakers being a short vindication of them, from the abuses and misrepresentations often put upon them by envious apostates, and mercenary adversaries. date: 1699 words: 10220 flesch: 59 summary: Whereas we assert nothing herein , but in the Language of the Holy Ghost in the Scriptures of Truth ; and Mean , no more by it , than that as God is in Christ , so Christ by his Spirit and Light , dwelleth in the Hearts of his People , to comfort and consolate them , as he doth in wicked Men , to reprove and condemn them , as well as to call , enlighten and instruct them ; that out of that state of Condemnation they may come , and by believing in him , may Experience their Hearts cured of the Maladies Sin hath brought upon them , in order to compleat Salvation from Sin here , and from Wrath to come hereafter , 2 Cor. 5. 9. 1 Joh. 1. 5. XIV . BEcause the Tendency ( generally speaking ) of our Ministry is to press People to the Inward and Spiritual Appearance of Christ , by his Spirit and Grace in their Hearts , to give them a true Sight and Sence of and Sorrow for Sin , to amendment of Life , and Practice of Holiness : And because we have often opposed that Doctrine of being actually Justified by the Merits of Christ , whilst actual Sinners against God , by living in the Pollutions of this wicked World : We are by our Adversaries render'd such , as either deny , or undervalue the coming of Christ without us , and the Force and Efficacy of his Death and Sufferings , as a Propitiation for the Sins of the whole World. keywords: christ; god; holy; jesus; john; lord; man; men; people; sin; spirit; world cache: A54228.xml plain text: A54228.txt item: #79 of 96 id: A54229 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A third letter from a gentleman in the country, to his friends in London, upon the subject of the penal laws and tests date: 1687 words: 6611 flesch: 54 summary: Church and state -- England. And I do swear that I will not at any time endeavour the Alteration of the Government , either in Church or State , so help me God. keywords: church; dissenters; england; government; king; laws; parliament; tcp; tests; text; way cache: A54229.xml plain text: A54229.txt item: #80 of 96 id: A54230 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Three letters tending to demonstrate how the security of this nation against al future persecution for religion lys in the abolishment of the present penal laws and tests, and in the establishment of a new law for universal liberty of conscience date: 1688 words: 5687 flesch: 61 summary: And after al this , and what more the Wisest Heads may invent , let The King himself be humbly beseeched to suffer in it a Clause , by which , reserving al other Rights of his Prerogative inviolated , he may solemnly renounce the onely Right of Dispensing with this Law , or of Pardoning any Transgressor of it in any case whatsoever . But where I see ground to fear that the granting of this Liberty should serv onely to put a Power into their Hands that now demand it , wherby they may be able hereafter to take it away from others , truly in that case I am apt to hesitate upon the Point ; or to say better , I confess that I hesitate not at al. keywords: law; laws; liberty; nation; persecution; security; tests; wil cache: A54230.xml plain text: A54230.txt item: #81 of 96 id: A54234 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: To the churches of Jesus throughout the world gathered and setled in His eternal light, power, and spirit, to be one holy flock, family, and houshold to the Lord : who hath redeemed them from among all the kindreds of the earth : Godly zeal, wisdom, power, perseverance, and victory, with all heavenly blessings, be multiplied among you in the name of the Lord / William Penn. date: 1677 words: 6245 flesch: 58 summary: Gathered and setled in his Eternal Light , Power , and Spirit , to be One Holy Flock , Family , and Houshold to the Lord , &c. Dear Friends and Brethren , WHO have been visited with the Fatherly Visitation from on high , and have received God's Eternal Word and Testament in your Hearts , by which you have been gathered home to Christ Jesus , the true Shepherd , from all the Idol-Shepherds , and their barren Mountains , and unprofitable Hills , where you have been scattered in the dark and gloomy Day of Apostacy , and by his Light , Spirit , and Power have been convinced of sin , righteousness , and judgment , and can say , The Prince of this World is judged by his holy righteous , and powerful Appearance in you , unto whom all Judgment in Heaven & Earth is committed ; who is the blessed Lamb of God , the Light & Saviour of the world ; who is King of Salem , and Prince of Peace : My Soul loves you with everlasting Love , even with the Love with which my God and your God , my Father & your Father hath loved me , and visited my Soul and your Souls , in this do I dearly salute and embrace you all , in this the Day of the fulfilling of his glorious Promises to his Church in the Wilderness , and Witnesses in Sack-cloth . And it is under the deep and weighty sense of this approaching VVork , that the Lord God hath laid it upon me , to write to you to wait for the further powrings out of the Power and Spirit of the Lord ; that nothing that is Careless , Sleepy , Earthly , or Exalted , may get up , whereby to displease the Lord ? and cause him to with-draw his sweet and preserving presence from any that know him : But let all keep the King of Righteousness his Peace , and walk in the steps of the Flocks of the Companions : For withering and destruction shall come upon all such as desert the Camp of the Lord , or with their murmuring Spirit , disquiet the Heritage of God : keywords: god; hath; jesus; life; light; lord; power; spirit; world cache: A54234.xml plain text: A54234.txt item: #82 of 96 id: A54235 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Truth exalted, in a short, but sure testimony against all those religions, faiths, and vvorships that have been formed and followed in the darkness of apostacy ... by William Penn the Younger ... date: 1668 words: 5921 flesch: 54 summary: Happy had it been for Adam and his Posterity , had he obeyed Gods Commands ; but transgression by disobedience getting entrance , he soon died to his Innocent State , in which God created him , and became alive in the Dominion sin had over him , being now as one without Law , in whose fallen State all Nations have been , and are , ( let their Professions seem never so great , and their Sacrifices never so many ) that live in the disobedient Nature , and so strangers to that Immortality and life Eternal , the first Adam became dead and darkened to by his transgression , and which the second Adam raises to the knowledge and possession of , by the power of his quickning Spirit ; yet where the Devil ( that subtile Serpent ) hath not totally extinguished the notion of a God , and the necessity of his being worshipped , it has been rather his interest than dis-service , to put the selfish part of the Creature upon sacrificing , wickedly insinuating that none can be freed from sin , and that the performing of Rites , Duties , and Ceremonies , is all God requires , and what is necessary to procure acceptance with him . Come now , you that are called Protestants , however denominated or distinguished , who profess the Scriptures for the Rule of Life and Doctrine , stand your Tryal by them ; and first those who are called Episcopalians , who date your Religion from the Martyrs : that those who first protested against the darkness and gross Idolatry of the Popish Antichrist , were directed thereto , and supported therein , by the mighty Power of God , is not denyed ; and that the Seals of blood they set to recommend their Testimonies to posterity , are with us in high esteem , I openly affirm and declare ; But that you of the Church of England have any more to do with them ( who now persecute us ) than had the Jews and Pharisees with Abraham , Moses , and the Prophets , who crucified the Lord of Life , is as positively disowned : for as they were out of the Life and Spirit of those Holy Men , ( though building and garnishing their Sepulchres , and making great profession with their words ) keywords: god; holy; life; light; men; nature; people; spirit; tcp; text; works cache: A54235.xml plain text: A54235.txt item: #83 of 96 id: A54243 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Truth further clear'd from mistakes being two chapters out of the book entituled, Primitive Christianity reviv'd : plainly acknowledging the benefit accruing by the death and suffering of our Lord Jesus Christ for the salvation of mankind, together with a comparison of the principles of the people called Quakers, and the perversions of their opposers, by way of postscript / by W.P. date: 1698 words: 7161 flesch: 67 summary: As he Died for Sin , so we must Die to Sin , or we cannot be said to be saved by the Death and Sufferings of Christ , or throughly justified and accepted with God. Why should they perish in a vain hope of Life , while Death Reigns ? Of living with God , who live not to him , nor walk with him ? Awake , thou that sleepest in thy Sin , or at best , in thy Self-righteousness ; Awake , I say , and Christ shall give thee Life ! keywords: christ; death; god; holy; john; sin; spirit; sufferings; world cache: A54243.xml plain text: A54243.txt item: #84 of 96 id: A54244 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Truth rescued from imposture, or, A brief reply to a meer rapsodie of lies, folly, and slander but a pretended answer to the tryal of W. Penn and W. Meade &c. writ and subscribed S.S. / by a profest enemy to oppression, W.P. date: 1670 words: 24768 flesch: 68 summary: These are but meer Phrases of Abuse , ready at every mans hand , for his interest , Indictments I Esteem not Juggles : nor do I believe the Author intended so , but that way of crouding most unnecessary and untrue Allegations , under the pretence of Form of Law , contrary to all Reason , is no less : This is explained by him , and his own sence fully vindicated . The Man resolving I must be the Author , sets me up as such , and then fights me , or rather pelts Dirt at me : He says that , Penn does not blush to Vilifie the Kings Court , and falsly Reproach the Kings Justices , and revile all Methods of Law , calling Indictments detestable Juggles ; and his , a Romance Indictment ; and W. Mead , his , a Bundle of Stuff : Penn designing , in a popular way , to subject the Laws , making the Jury Judges both of Law and Fact. keywords: author; case; contrary; court; england; english; fact; god; judges; juries; jurors; jury; justice; king; law; laws; light; man; matter; mayor; men; nota; pag; penn; reason; s.s; self; tryal; verdict; words cache: A54244.xml plain text: A54244.txt item: #85 of 96 id: A54245 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Urim and thummim, or, The apostolical doctrines of light and perfection maintained against the opposite plea of Samuel Grevill (a pretended minister of the Gospel) in his ungospel-like discourse against a book entituled A testimony of the light within, anciently writ by Alexander Parker / by W.P. date: 1674 words: 15086 flesch: 72 summary: This Measure of Light leads to God , who is Light ; and this Measure of Grace and Truth guides the Soul unto him , who is full of Grace and Truth , where Salvation is known , and plentious Redemption witnessed ; Blessings and Praises be to his Name forever . They are standing Truths , That whatsoever may be known of God is manifested in man ; for God hath shew●d it unto him : That whatsoever is reproved is made manifest by the Light ; and that whatsoever doth make manifest is Light , Rom. 1. 19. Ephes . keywords: christ; god; gospel; law; light; man; men; power; saith; sin; spirit; things cache: A54245.xml plain text: A54245.txt item: #86 of 96 id: A54246 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A winding-sheet for controversie ended date: 1672 words: 7880 flesch: 71 summary: But perhaps I should not have been so free with him : To conclude , He allows G. F. to have a Conscience , that to be an Infallible Rule , that God is the Author of it , that the Spirit may be said to have taught G. F. that God did work upon him by it &c. therefore I infer , G. F. to have an Infallible Rule in him ; and that both Conscience , and the Spirit of God are said by him to be this Infallible Rule ; which , Reader , is more then any Quaker in England ever said , unless Conscience be taken for Christ's Light within , or God's Light within ; for H. H. abhors to think Christ should be God enough to illuminate any Man in that sense . See into what , but too many Independents and Anabaptists are Running : Let them do as they will ; for us , We own Christ's Manhood , as firmly as the Scriptures testifie to it , but we cannot say , the Manhood was the intire Christ , though Christ took that Manhood upon him , in which to do the Will of God ; and it was ( we confess ) instrumentally a Saviour to the World , and our Faith herein we leave with God. keywords: christ; controversie; god; light; man; men; pag; quakers; spirit cache: A54246.xml plain text: A54246.txt item: #87 of 96 id: A54247 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Wisdom justified of her children from the ignorance and calumny of H. Hallywell in his book called, An account of familism as it is revived and propagated by the Quakers / by William Penn. date: 1673 words: 31282 flesch: 67 summary: But having been thus made sensible of the Terrors of the Lord for Sin , and being brought into a True Understanding of that Religion and Worship which most please God , some of us were constrained , and in Conscience bound , to go forth into the World , and publish these Tidings of Judgment for Sin , and Conversion through Righteousness wrought by the mighty Power of God in the Conscience , that all might be awakened to try their Works , Faiths , Worships and whole Religions , whether they were of God or Men ; or they had been doing their own Wills , or the Will of God ; that so they might be brought to experience God to be a God nigh at hand , reconciled in Christ , blotting out Sin , and renewing a Right Spirit within , by which their Religion might not longer stand in the Traditions of Men , nor only Education of Parents , but upon the Convictions and Operations of God's Grace in the Conscience . The Former , he sayes , arrogated to themselves a Knowledge beyond Christ and his Apostles ; The Latter impudently throw away the written Word of God , & delude the credulous Vulgar with new fangled Revelations ; which he thinks he has prov'd by two Inances . keywords: adversary; answ; apostles; baptism; christ; church; come; conscience; day; father; god; good; hath; holy; house; life; light; lord; man; men; pag; people; quakers; reason; religion; sayes; spirit; things; truth; water; world cache: A54247.xml plain text: A54247.txt item: #88 of 96 id: A55471 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A letter to Mr. Penn with his answer date: 1688 words: 6795 flesch: 63 summary: For since I have had the Knowledge of Religion from a Principle in my Self , the first and main Point with me , has been to approve my Self in the sight of God , through Patience and Well-doing : Whatsoever divides mans Heart from God , separates it from his Neighbour ; and he that loves self more than God , can never love his Neighbour as himself , For ( as the Apostle said ) if we do not love him whom we see , how can we love God whom we have not seen ? keywords: conscience; god; good; liberty; love; man; men; people; religion; tcp; text cache: A55471.xml plain text: A55471.txt item: #89 of 96 id: A56480 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A Particular account of the late and present great sufferings and oppressions of the people called Quakers upon prosecutions against them in the Bishops courts humbly presented to the serious consideration of the King, Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled. date: 1680 words: 10960 flesch: 66 summary: Dyed Prisoners , prosecuted upon Writs of Excommunicato Capiendo , 1680. upon a Writ of Excommunicato Capiendo , at the Suit of Thomas Fletther Priest of Haughton , for Non-payment of Tythes , and remained a Prisoner till Summer Assizes , and then was set at Liberty by the Act of Pardon and Indemnity ; but in the latter end of the same Moneth he was again committed by Mittimus ( upon the Statute of the 27 Hen. 8. ) under the Hands and Seals of John Martin , Mayor of Stafford , and Francis Moss Justice , at the Suit of the said Tho. Fletcher , who granted their Warrant upon a Significavit or Certificate from the Bishop of Lichfield , that the said Peter Littleton was Excommunicated , &c. keywords: 1st moneth; bishops; church; county; court; day; de excommunicato; excommunicato capiendo; john; moneth; parish; priest; prisoner; repair; suit; thomas; tythes; william; writ; writ de; years cache: A56480.xml plain text: A56480.txt item: #90 of 96 id: A61693 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A word to the well-inclin'd of all perswasions together with a coppy of a letter from William Penn to George Keith, upon his arbitrary summons and unjust proceedings, at Turners-Hall, against the people called Quakers. date: 1698 words: 3082 flesch: 60 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: eebo; english; man; meeting; tcp; text; thou cache: A61693.xml plain text: A61693.txt item: #91 of 96 id: A62427 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: The Quakers quibbles in three parts : first set forth in an expostulatory epistle to Will. Pfnn [i.e. Penn] concerning the late meeting held to Barbycan between the Baptists and the Quakers, also the pretended prophet Lod. Muggleton and the Quakers compared : the second part, in reply to a quibbling answer to G. Whiteheads, entituled The Quakers plainness ... : the third part, being a continuation of their quibbles ... / by the same indifferent pen. date: 1675 words: 72088 flesch: 65 summary: supposing all this w●s true , Must you Quakers lay violent Hands on him , and be your own Judges and Ju●y , and Hangman too , to Execute Justice on him ? Concerning the last Meeting held in Barbican the 9 th of Octob. 1674. BETWEEN The Baptists and Quakers . keywords: answer; baptists; body; christ; church; g.w; george; god; good; hath; holy; light; lord; man; men; muggleton; person; power; pretend; quakers; quibbles; rule; scripture; sect; self; spirit; thee; thing; thou; thy; truth; viz; w.p; way; words; world; ● ● cache: A62427.xml plain text: A62427.txt item: #92 of 96 id: A69913 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A defence of the Duke of Buckingham, against the answer to his book, and the reply to his letter by the author of the late Considerations. date: 1685 words: 1876 flesch: 66 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 95998) keywords: duke; eebo; english; tcp; text cache: A69913.xml plain text: A69913.txt item: #93 of 96 id: A70777 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: The great and popular objection against the repeal of the penal laws & tests briefly stated and consider'd, and which may serve for answer to several late pamphlets upon that subject / by a friend to liberty for liberties sake. date: 1688 words: 5310 flesch: 56 summary: By a Friend to Liberty for Liberties sake Licensed February the 4th 1687. But that we should be less safe , because the King , we so much Fear , is ready to Consent to a GREAT CHARTER for Liberty of Conscience , by which , it shall be Declared the RIGHT of Mankind to make a free and open choice and profession of Faith and Worship towards GOD , and that any Constraint or Interruption upon that Freedom , is Impiety , and an Evil in it self , and that Law , therefore Indispenfible , Is , I must confess , a Notion very Extraordinary . keywords: church; dissenters; interest; law; laws; liberty; repeal cache: A70777.xml plain text: A70777.txt item: #94 of 96 id: A70779 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: A treatise of oaths containing several weighty reasons why the people call'd Qvakers refuse to swear : and those confirmed by numerous testimonies out of Gentiles, Jews and Christians, both fathers, doctors and martyrs : presented to the King and great council of England, assembled in Parliament. date: 1675 words: 47257 flesch: 75 summary: To this conduces not a little , not to Swear , and not to be Angry ; for , in not being Angry , we shall not have an Enemy ; and cast off a mans Oath , and withal thou shalt cast off those things that concern Wrath , and shalt extinguish all Anger : For Wrath and an Oath are like the Wind. For this End hath the Grace of God appeared unto all Men , as speaks the Apostle Paul to Titus , that they should be taught to deny Vngodliness and Wor●dly Lusts , which entering & over-running the World , made way among other Expedients for that of Oaths ; so that to live that Life which needs No Oath , man is both requir'd and impower'd : keywords: book; christ; christians; doctrine; doth; evil; forswear; god; good; gospel; hath; heaven; holy; jews; judgment; law; lord; lye; man; mat; men; nay; need; oath; perjury; reason; saith; self; swear; sweareth; swearing; things; thou; thy; time; truth; use; words; yea cache: A70779.xml plain text: A70779.txt item: #95 of 96 id: A90425 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Some proposals for a second settlement in the province of Pennsylvania [by] William Penn. date: 1690 words: 1742 flesch: 59 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 150159) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2234:9) keywords: english; province; settlement; tcp; text cache: A90425.xml plain text: A90425.txt item: #96 of 96 id: B04671 author: Penn, William, 1644-1718. title: Mr. Penn's advice in the choice of Parliament-men, in his Englands great interest in the choice of this new Parliament ; dedicated to all her free-holders and electors. date: 1688 words: 1172 flesch: 62 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B04671) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 180297) keywords: choice; parliament; tcp; text cache: B04671.xml plain text: B04671.txt